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Divined on Wu: Make an announcement by written record (of sacrifices) (to) Ancestress Geng along the riverside in Ba. 2 (湏) is composed with 頁 “head” under 水 “water”. In front of the preposition, yu 于, the word it writes has to be functioning as a verb. The graph’s composition looks similar in form to pin 瀕, which in Western Zhou bronze script was written . 瀕means “along the water; water- side” > “near” (≈近). is composed with 不 (phono-semantic) + 又right hand, depicts pulling up roots, and writes the word ba 拔 “uproot”. This word is also the name of a song and dance (181, 293, 474). A place written with the variants and 不 occurs in a series of Wu Ding period war inscrip- tions (HJ 6834r); see translation and commentary of Takashima and Serruys 2010: I.92-96; 2.34. The war-divination accounts imply that Ba was close to the places Fou 缶, Zhou 冑, Xian 先, and Que 雀, which all seem to have been located in the area of northwest Henan and southwest Shanxi. Chen Mengjia (1956: 294) reads Fou as a phonetic loan for Tao 陶 and locates it in modern day Yongji, Shanxi 山西永濟; Shirakawa (1957) locates Que in the vicinity of Wenxian, Henan 河南溫縣. The lineage name Xian frequently occurs in Eastern Zhou period covenant texts from Houma, Shanxi 山西侯馬. HYZ 53 | 127