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Divined on Ji: Sacrifice some bulls (to) Ancestress Ji. Used. 1 338 Parallel syntax makes it clear that (貝) and ( ) are variants writing the same word. I read both as bei 貝 “cowrie”; the latter form appears to add bi 匕 as a phonetic complement. The same word occurs again on 229. These two shells were buried close to each other in Pit H3 and originally formed a set. 226 | HYZ 224