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On Xinwei, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng some small pen-raised sheep, make announcements, have (> offer) the dispensed aromatic ale, our lord will pray, (and) raise (other) sacrificial items. 1 alternative readings. It is possible to take chime stones and female servants as two separate things; the prince will bring both to Lady Hao. A second possible reading is that Qing is the name of a place, and here modifies female servants; Li Xueqin (2008: 171-174) locates Qing 磬 in the vicinity of Qinyang, Henan 河南沁陽. 400 The phrase “you zhao chang 又(有)肇鬯” is different from you chang 又(有)鬯 “have/add aromatic ale”. It only occurs in divinations on this shell. It is comparable to you zhao chen 有肇 臣 in the divination statement 辛卜: 子其又(有)肇臣自 “Divined on Xin: Our lord will likely have servitors that are dispensed from….” (257.18). The aromatic ale would presumably have been dispensed to the protagonist from either the king or the queen. Other accounts mention him requesting and using millet from them for ritual events like this one (363.3, 379.1). 401 This is the most complete list of activities for an ancestor’s weekly worship in the entire corpus. In all, five activities are listed: animal sacrifice, reporting, offering drink, praying, and the offering of other “sacrificial items” that likely included a grain-type staple food (millet). I am not sure how exactly these actitivies were coordinated, and so I translate them one by one in order. 262 | HYZ 267