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area. In the northernmost panel is a large figure of [handwritten: KTi615] [handwritten: 370] She is in a circular frame and to be viewed from the south, looking north.
The KTi615 figure may be interpreted symbolically. Before interpreting it, we must decide what [handwritten: KTi615] means. The criterion by which we must judge its meaning is the object which she holds in her right hand. In the past, there [handwritten: has] has been some doubt about it. [handwritten: 371] It is,however, clear from the copy in our building what is,also, clear liminary publications of the Antioch excavations that the object which our [handwritten: KTi615] holds is a measuring tool. There is just such a measuring tool carved in relief on a stone [handwritten: 373] found in Palestine. The examples of [handwritten: KTi615] found in Antioch have a similar object associated with [handwritten: 375] them or else nothing, except [handwritten: for] one which has an object previously identified as a wand but a [handwritten: 376] piece of reed used as a measuring stick. Since we [handwritten: 377] have identified the object associated with [handwritten: KTi615] as a measuring tool, we may,now, safely exclude the meaning of possession, because whereas the most valuable and permanent possession at this time must have been land and hand must have been measured out in some form of system, a measuring tool is not so closely associated with the measuring of land as land and as a possession as it is … continues
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