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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)

Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 279

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g. It is a little six-wheeled bronzecarriage, carrying in front a horse and behind an uprightcircular bronze disk, about 15 inches in diameter, one faceof which is still partly covered with gold leaf (Fig. 251).The disk has two lugs. By one it was fixed to the carriage,to the other a rein from the… … Fig. 251.—Sun disk on carriage. Trundholme, Zealand, Denmark. figures. The pattern on both sides is essentially the same.It is composed of a series of concentric circles in themiddle : separated from these by circular bands is a run-ning spiral design : outside this also separated by bands is azone…

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