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Description: | This ivory sceptre is highly carved and depicts a seated male figure eating a root and holding a sheathed knife or sceptre. A snake is entwined round the base of the staff which clasps a lizard-like object in its teeth. The container which surmounts the sceptre was used to contain medicine, and a fragment of conus shell survives intact and may have originated from the Indian Ocean. Description Source: Helen Coleman | Subjects: | sceptre sceptre accessory (including regalia) unspecified sceptre | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=391... | Go to resource |
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