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Requested from Jia. 161 The graph transcribed here as zhou 舟 “boat”+ ren 人 “person” also occurs on 380 and 490. The graph’s composition matches a guwen 古文form “𦨈” of fu 𦨕(服) listed in the Shuowen jiezi and defined there as 用 “use”; Shi Bing (2010, cited in GuLin bubian, N034: 909-910) reads 服as a phonetic loan for fu 復 “repeat”. Zhu Qixiang (2006: 972) reads it qian 前 “initial, pro- ceed ”, and Sun Yabing (2014: 125-130) reads it 同(興) “arise” (but meaning something like not good or inauspicious). Fu 服is the alternative choice to zhong bu 終卜; this verbal use of zhong has the same meaning it does for instance in HJ 14209r: 帝弗終茲邑 “G-d is not going to put an end to this settlement”. 162 This divination made by Ya Dian is testing which of the two contradictory prognostications should be followed. The inscription on the verso side is the judgment. For a comparable divina- tion outside of the Huayuanzhuang East corpus, see HJ 94. Yao Xuan (2006: 54-55) has a discus- sion. 163 Both 380 and 490 write 𦨈(服)卜”obey the divination (/divination crack)” . HYZ 64 | 135