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On Guihai, sacrifice (to) Gui Child one ewe. 1 modifies “large jade tablets” and refers to their point of origin. The graph is an alterna- tive form to write the name of the Zhou 舟 lineage, and undoubtedly is to be associated with Zhou Long 舟嚨, who reported a jade delivery to the king on 255. 431 is a pictograph of a spider (=zhu 蛛) (Li Yanong [1950] 2001: 3. 283c). As a verb, it writes the word shu 殊 “cut off > to kill”/zhu 誅 “kill, punish” (Jin Xiangheng 金祥恆 [1970] 2001: 6. 161d-162a). Variant spellings in Shang script add the phonetic shu 束 (HJ 36417, White 1381) and the classifier si 死 “die” (White 959). The toponym Zhu 邾 (located in southern Shandong dur- ing the Western Zhou period) is written with “spider” + the phonetic zhu 朱 in Western Zhou script. HYZ 290 | 281