1. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, 8/22/17) Period one changed from "Possibly late Shang dynasty" to "Late Shang dynasty"; geography changed from "China" to "China, probably Henan province, Anyang".
2. (Najiba Choudhury per Keith Wilson, January 30, 2019) Added Chinese translation by Jingmin Zhang; and removed catalogue draft entry by Max Loehr from curatorial remarks and transferred under unpublished research text entry field.
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