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Divined on Jimao, tested: Qiu is not going to die. Our lord said, “Likely dies.” 1 274 It is a common in oracle bone scribal practice to record divination utterances on the recto side of a shell and a corresponding prognostication or verification on the verso side. Most of the content on the recto side of 155 has been erased, and the only inscription that remains is the first part of (5). The inscription on the verso side is on the same side of the shell as divination (5), and this suggests that the content on the verso was a judgment. ): This graph also occurs on 294. The inner component is shuai 率, which the Shuowen jiezi defines as a net for capturing birds. The outside component might be 匚, which the Shuowen jiezi defines as a container. (The alternative is that it is the frame of the net.) Else- where in these inscriptions the writing of shuai without 匚functions as an adverb, “all” 276 Jia Zu 甲祖 is likely a reverse spelling of Zu Jia 祖甲 “Ancestor Jia” in divination (4). HYZ 159 | 187