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Divined on Yimao: Our lord, on a Bing day, will invite (others). Not used. 12 a near identical syntax. The difference between the two is that the divination has the modal adverb qi, which indicates future action, whereas the sentence in the bronze inscription is post- factum. There are a series of period V OBI (HJ 36540-36547; Yingcang 2529) dating to end of the Anyang period that mention two different kinds of schools located at a place called Yi . The schools are both referred to as being of or located in the Great Settlement Shang: one school is called the Great Settlement Shang School for Gong (Adults?) 天邑商公序, and the other school is called the Great Settlement Shang School for Meng (Eldest Sons?) 天邑商皿(孟)序. HJ 36542 writes “school” and HJ 36543 writes it (HYZ 21) writes the name of the protagonist’s relative, Zi Yu. 450 is composed of zi 子 “child” over zhi 止 “foot”. A territory called by this name is record- ed in Wu Ding’s divination records (HJ 456r, HJ 7244; see Jao Tsung-I 1959: 596). Although it is certainly possible to interpret this word as the name of the protagonist’s aunt, I understand it in association with the divinations before it about the construction of a school, and read it as a variant spelling of zi 子 “child, children”. In Shang script “child” + ce “document, book” writes the word zhi 智 “know, knowledge”. A variant adds the phonetic “foot” under “child”. I take 止 the same way here. HYZ 296 | 287