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… formed of strips mitred at the angles (1). The row of small plaques is separated from the long ones with narrow strips; similar strips separate the small plaques. All these plaques and strips must have been inlaid in wood of which no trace survives.
The two long plaques are engraved with scenes representing a lion attacking an antelope. A tree appears on the right of the lower plaque towards which the animals advance; on the upper this composition is reversed On both plaques the scene is much the same. The lion is ready to leap on the antelope which it has almost overtaken and which turns its head backwards to look at the assaulting lion. The antelope is almost prostrate, but in both cases one of its legs is slightly raised and bent with hoof touching the ground (2) probably to indicate the final stage of the chase when the antelope,
(1). Some of the strips forming the rectangles are missing; also originally there was a seventh small plaque which is lost. (2). This resembles the attitude of the engraved roebuck on a comb from Enkomi, cf. SCE I, Pl. CLII, 6.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain