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Divined on Bing: It will be Ya Dian95 who makes (an exorcism for) our lord’s tooth.96 93 I read zhi 至, not in the temporal sense of “arrive”, but as zhi 致 “deliver, send off”. HYZ 56 uses it + direct object in the phrases: “zhi 至+ ram one” and “zhi 至+ ram one + recipient.” Zhi yu 至禦 also occurs again on 409. Wu Ding’s and Wu Ding period royal family divination accounts insert the name of the person who was exorcised in between the words zhi 至and yu 禦, for in- stance HJ 22046: 戊子卜：至子禦兄庚羌、牢 ‖ 戊子卜：至子禦父丁白豕 “Divined on Wuzi: Deliver, for our lord’s exorcism (to) Elder Brother Geng, Qiang, pen-raised cattle‖ Divined on Wuzi: Deliver, for our lord’s exorcism (to) Father Ding, white pigs”; HJ 22049: 戊午卜：至妻禦束 父戊，良有瘳 “Divined on Wuwu: Deliver, for the consort’s exorcism, cloth to Father Wu; (her illness) will get better and she will recover”; and HJ 13740 [Bin 賓-diviner]: 于婦至吴禦 “To (de- ceased) Lady (Hao), deliver Wu’s exorcism.” 94 This divination can be synchronized with 32 and 320.6. These two cracks numbered 34 imply the existence of 12, yet none of the inscribed shells or bones from Pit H3 can be linked with it. 95 Ya 亞was one of the most powerful Shang military ranks; see David Keightley 2012: 348- 349. Dian 奠 is the early writing of Zheng 鄭. As a lineage and place name it almost certainly is to be associated with modern day Zhengzhou, Henan (Shirakawa Shizuka 1957). 284.3-4 rec- ords a person called Hou Dian 侯奠.Lin Yun (2007) thinks Hou Dian and Ya Dian refer to one person who over time held two different official positions. 106 | HYZ 28