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Divined on Wuchen: If our lord takes female servants who will play chime stones399 to His Majesty’s Lady Hao, (it) will be favorable. 12345 397 This delivery receipt is written on the lower left bridge of the recto side. The handwriting is crude, just like the notation “Dancer Jia presents one” on 226. Comparisons can also be made with the handwriting of the receipts on 502r and 226r. Sun Yabing (2011a: 253, note 7) locates Zhi 制in Xingyang county, Henan 河南省滎陽縣. 398 HYZ 102 records Trader Zhu having mouth sickness. 399 I read “chime stones” as a musical instrument and “female servants” as the musicians who will play them for Lady Hao. 磬妾 is comparable to 琡羌 “Lapidary Qiang” (241.11); see