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and the ornament is applied with great skill and delicacy. The 

 pattern, which covers the entire vase including the lip of the rim 

 and the ears, consists of encircling hands of short lines of finely 

 twisted-thong impressions arranged herring-bone fashion. Both 

 the bands and the lines forming them are placed close together, and 

 the general effect is very rich and at the same time tasteful. It is 

 one of the best specimens of its class that I have met with, and 

 nearly approaches in beauty to that which I have referred to above 

 as resembling it in shape. In the hollow there were also found two 

 fragments of another vessel. 



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