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Divined on Ji: It should be two bulls. 1 258 This same receipt occurs on 242, 417 and 447. Forty shells in all were delivered from this place/lineage. 259 The word mu 母 in Shang-Western Zhou vocabulary has the following meanings and usag- es: 1a) mother (349.17, 290.1, 320.2, etc.); 1b) aunt, as in waimu 外母 (294.5); 2) spouse (Zhao Lin 2018: 129; and 3) an appellation for females after a personal name. (For males, the word was fu 父/甫; see Wang Guowei 1959: 3.164.) People whose names occurred in the divination formula “person’s name (subject) + coda wang bu ruo 亡不若” were living; see Song Huaqiang 2009: 133 and Song Zhenhao 2010: 448. The name Jimu 季母occurs only here, but the name Ji 季occurs four times on 249. A correspondence between these two names and the fact that 139.7 and multiple divinations on 249 were made at the same location, Dun (see following note), recommends these two shells formed set (or part of a larger set) and Jimu and Ji were the same person. 176 | HYZ 140