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The position of these fragments is shown in the portion of the general plan (Plate I.) 

 repeated below. 



a. 



is a flat slab, now much broken, measuring 4 feet 7 inches X 3 feet 8 inches 

 X 1 foot ; there are grooves cut in the edges, as if it had been fitted into a 

 wall. On the surface is a carving, in medium relief, of a human figure sitting 

 with legs crossed and clutching in its left hand an ornament, in which two 

 small animals' heads can be indistinctly made out, and holding it to its breast, 

 whilst in the right hand is held an object similar to that shown in the hands 

 of most of the figures in Plate VIII. 



The figure is seated above two intertwined plumed serpents. 



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