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Divined on Yiyou: Contribute meat. 1 589 This graph resembles the inside (the sound element) of hou (厚) “thick”. Tang Lan (1981: 32) explains its shape as a container with a large mouth and slender neck; see too Lin Yun 2010: 99-107. I read this graph here as though it wrote the word 厚 and as an adjective modifying “serrated jade circlet”. 590 Divinations (6)-(7) can be synchronized with 427.(3),(5): 己卯卜:庚辰刮肜妣庚,先殺牢, 後殺牝一。用。一二三 “Divined on Jimao: On Gengchen, to carve Rong-rite offerings (for) Ancestress Geng, first kill the pen-raised cattle, and then kill cow one. Used. 123”; and 庚辰歲妣庚牢牝肜刮 一 “On Gengchen, sacrifice (to) Ancestress Geng pen-raised cattle and cows (and), for Rong-rite offerings, carve (them). 1” Reading these divinations together makes it clear that the divinations were performed on Jimao, and not on Jimao and Gengchen; Gengchen was the day of the ritual event. This synchrony further recommends that the date Xinhai on 132.2-3 should be interpreted in the same way. HYZ 492 | 383