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March. 1 166 As I understand it, and following the ZSKY Editor’s sequence, divination (5), “Our lord test- ed”, is a test on the previously unsuccessful divinations before it. None of the previous four divi- nations produced a judgment (> result), and the sense here is that the patron of the divination organization stepped in making a test divination to try and settle it; see HYZ 191 for another in- stance. A less compelling and alternative interpretation is that this single divination was unrelat- ed to the others on the shell. 167 Zheng Jiexiang (1994: appendix 5) locates Feng in modern day Fengqiu, Henan 河南封丘; see also 172 (=171v) for a second delivery receipt from this place. 140 | HYZ 75