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Divined on Wuwu: Our men will make captures. Our lord read the crack and said, “Should make captures.” Used. At Tang.464 1 mentary suggests that the words missing after 彡were Ancestor Jia 祖甲. As such, the junior Ancestor Yi was to be incorporated into the offerings of his brother Ancestor Jia’s Rong-rite. See Schwartz 2019, and the commentary to 226.5 for a fuller explanation of divinations in this form. 463 Along with 176, this is the highest count of divination cracks for an individual divination statement in the HYZ OBI. Shang diviners routinely made divination in multiples of three cracks and stopped at ten. In general, the importance of an issue was indicated by how many cracks the diviner made and how many shells and bones were used about it. The two divina- tions left on this fragment concern cyclical sacrifices (zhouji 周祭). In addition to weekly ances- tor worship, dead kings and their main spouses also received larger and more elaborate “peri- odic” or “seasonal” worship events. (There were three main cycles Yi 翌—Rong 彡(肜)—Ji 祭, and with the inclusion of two additional sub-cycles within the Ji 祭-cycle totalled five rites altogether.) The limited number of these major rites performed over a year implies the im- portance of divinations about them (Schwartz 2019). Only cracks 9 and 10 remain on this frag- ment. The first eight cracks are not found on any other shell or bone discovered in Pit H3. (51): ZSKY 2003 and Yao Xuan 2006 identify all four graphs as jia 斝 “small ale cup”; The graph on HYZ 51 is indeed 斝, but the first three write the word shang 觴 “ale cup”; see Li Chuntao 2018: 83-89. Western Zhou bronze forms add the sound value yang 昜. HYZ script spells it with a 斝 classifier + the phonetic 丂, which is the sound value in the spelling of 昜. In early script the classifiers 斝and jue 爵 “ale cup with a spout” were interchangeable. (In Warring States script 觴 was written with the classifier gu 角, another type of ale cup.) Early Western Zhou bronze script wrote the toponymn Tang 唐with the graph 觴. Tang 唐was located in southwest Shanxi province. 觴(唐) occurs seven times on three shells in the HYZ OBI: 312, 363 and 480. All three shells can be synchronized into a timeline spanning from day 55/60 through day 14/60. On 312 and 363, the protagonist made divinations, 296 | HYZ 313