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The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan (1893)

Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · London, New York : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 232

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198 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT round it, is also Phoenician in character.1 The most noticeable feature in the treatment of these bulls is that the three pairs of horns we have preserved to us are all different. There are three fragments of three very large bowls, which are all of a special… … FRAGMENT OF SOAPSTONE BOWL FRAGMENT WITH LETTERING WITH EAR OF CORN ON IT and therefore must be content with what we have. The first of these represents on its side a small por¬ tion of what must have been a religious procession ; of this we have only a hand holding a pot or censer containing an…

Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities

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