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N°. 695. PI. XXIV, fig. 3. 1 / 2 . A se; like N°. 694, socket-part toward opening a little broader and 

 provided with small conical hole. The edge hère and there torn or bent in by chopping. No 

 relief ornament, but near one of the corners of the edge, on the side of the handle-part an open-worked 

 oval, situated in the plane of the axe in which part of an open lozenge with concave sides. On 

 symmetrical place of other corner only a small élévation of the surface. 



N°. 696. PL XXIV T , fig. 1. ' ',. Asé; knob-shaped, hollow object of ± 1 m.m. thick copper; globular, but 

 in one place passing into a hollow spout and opposite is a short stem, on which a little knob 

 with a slit as in a bell, the stem closed towards the bell as well as towards the large, globular 

 cavity. The surface of the knob ornamented with two parallel rows of little knobs, some of them 

 pointed, between which 23 meridian relief stripes. Above this ornament two circular rows of relief 

 spirals between circular relief rims; at the bottom one similar row, and lower down, on spout, 

 6 spiral rows of superficial scallops and below thèse a band of little squares. Stem of bell with 4 

 lengthvise ridges; the bell itself, on the greatest circumference, with a circle of little knobs, below 

 that an ornament like plaited work; above this both halves covered with numerous curved furrows. 

 Along ail three rows of knobs a waved relief ridge. 



N°. 697. Char in de. Ingras; brass bell in which a small, iron bail; Chinese ornament. From men's bag 

 N°. 641 ; was bought in the branch of the N. G. Trading Company at Metu Débi. 



