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Divined on Renzi: When carrying in (offerings) 179 (to) [Ancestress Geng’s]180 altar, bestow them in the eastern guesthouse.181 Used. 178 Gao guan yu ding 告館于丁has a parallel grammar with the phrases 告行于丁 and 告行于婦 on 211. 113.28 records the building of what is presumably this guesthouse. 82.1 records making offerings in (Rong’s) eastern guesthouse. depicts two hands holding a portable table (for viands). Seal script adds “meat” and omits one of the hands. In the Shijing the word jiang 將has the specific meaning of to carry and bring forward sacrificial offerings; see the poems “Wo jiang” 我將 (Mao 272) and “Chu ci” 楚茨 (Mao 209). Jao Tsung-I (1959: 670) says that jiang 將means to carry in the carcass of the sacrifi- cial animal on a serving table. An alternate interpretation for the verb phrase 將妣庚示 is “carry in (and set down) Ancestress Geng’s spirit tablet”. This divination record is part of the “Rong” syn- chrony reconstructed in the introduction (Table 4). 180 Reconstructed from 490.12. 181 Both Zhu Qixiang (2006: 974) and Song Zhenhao (2010: 36) read this graph as a variant of gong 宫 “palace”, and take 妣庚示宫 as a noun phrase. This seems incorrect. First, there are no instances of a noun phrase “ancestor name + 示 ‘altar/spirit tablet’ + 宮 ‘palace’”. Secondly, the graph itself does not at all resemble any known variants of gong 宮, which depicts a roof + two enclosures (one on top of the other). Followed by the preposition “in, at” and taking the object “eastern guesthouse” implies it is a verb. This divination contains two clauses, the first starts with jiang 將, and the second starts with this word. I suggest the graph is gong 工 (writ- 144 | HYZ 82-HYZ 83