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on a cluster of bells. The
kneeling with a cock in its hands, resting hanging
lower which is broken and detached from the a
part, upper part, represents
human ; in his left hand a and in his hand
figure large neolithic celt, right
a human-headed staff, similar in design to Figs. 279 and 280, Plate XXXVI.
Below and in front of this are smaller a human
figure figures, representing
with a neolithic celt in the hand and a with
figure right spotted leopard,
tail curled over head, on the left. Rising from the head of the larger figure
is an with two snakes out of its mouth, surrounded
antelope, springing by
of various The whole to
representations weapons, points upwards. appears
an iron stem.
be constructed of bronze, surrounding

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