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Divined on Guichou: It should be two head of pen-raised cattle for Ances- tor Jia. Not used. 1 562 Yao Xuan’s commentary points out that the graph written here as is different than the graph written as in the previous inscription, and suggests to read it gua (刮). While there is no doubt that she is right, the collocation with 友 does not seem a coincidence and makes it more likely that it should be read as an mispelling of “You You”, who is the topic of the previ- ous divination. A potential problem with my reading is that, on the surface, it leaves the divina- tion statement as a string of three nouns without a verb. As I understand it, however, the verb “assemble” has been elided because it was mentioned in the divination immediately before it. HYZ 459 | 365