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Divined on Jiawu: If His Highness arrives, it should be Zhou’s430 large jade tablets that are dispensed (to) His Highness. Not used. Carved (meat used for) Ancestor Jia’s Rong-rite. 1 is a variant spelling of jia 嘉 “excellent, joy, auspicious.” Both here and at 480.5 it is being used as a verb, “praise, commend.” It ought to be equivalent in meaning with the verbal usage of jia 加 on the early Western Zhou bronze inscription Rongzhong fangding 榮仲方鼎 (Xinshou 1567): 子加榮仲囗瓚一 “(The king’s) son commended Rongzhong with…one ladle.” 429 is composed of shi 尸 + shao 少. It is written in Western Zhou script as wei 尾 “tail” over 少 (Qiu Xigui 2012: 3.167-171). This item commonly occurs in Western Zhou bronze docu- ments in gift lists modified by the color term 彤 “red” and as an accessory for a dagger. I read it rui 緌 “tassel”. 280 | HYZ 289