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sides of the monument; it can be seen in Plate LVIIL, b, and is figured separately on 

 Plate LXIV. 



There remains to be noticed the figure seated crossed-legged within the dragon's 

 jaws. The dress and ornaments on the body present no new features. A manikin 

 sceptre is grasped in the right hand and a tasselled shield in the left. The head- 

 dress is most elaborate. Immediately above the head is a grotesque mask with an 

 unusual and conspicuous forehead-mark, and the wing of a serpent bird on either side 

 of it. The nose of the serpent's head belonging to this wing is covered with something 

 that looks like a glyph. 



Above the grotesque mask are the head and hands of a small human figure, also 

 issuing from the open jaw of a dragon or serpent. From the mouth of this human 

 head issues a scroll connected with a band, which, after passing across the forehead- 

 mark of the grotesque mask below, is grasped by the hands of the figure and then 

 hangs down on each side over the wing of the serpent-bird, taking on the way the form 

 of an elongated serpent's head, and ending on one side in a flower and on the other in 

 a conventional scroll-ornament. It seems probable that this human head and the 

 band hanging from its mouth have some connection with the head and water-plant 

 figured in Vol. IV. Plate XCIII. 



Above the hands of the small human figure, and on either side of its head, is another 

 dragon's or serpent's head, whose snout ends in another grotesque head surmounted by 

 a bold scroll. 



In the middle line, above the small human head, is a grotesque head decorated with 

 scroll-ornaments. ^> 



Plate LXV. gives the Initial series or dates on the Monuments in a tabulated form. 



The Picture-writing series on Monuments B and D are not included. 

 Plate LXVI. gives a view of our camp and my assistants, taken in the year 1883. 



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