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Bronze urn. Below the shoulder the urn is decorated with a frieze of six figures, each set in a cartouche: a deer; a figure with a human body and bird's head dressed in a knee-length coat; a deer; a figure with a human body and animal head; a deer; a figure with a human body and horned head, carrying a club. Above the shoulder is a frieze of ten animals, resembling deer and camels. The urn has a vertical collar with a regular vertical pattern reminiscent of stylised Arabic script.
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