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[[underline]] Chapter XIII. [[/underline]] 284-a

rups (see, for comparison, Fig. 51, a rock-engraving of a steppe warrior probably of about the same period); the figure on the seal is shown carrying a la^[[nc]]e with a pennon, or possibly a long-handled [[underline]] ko [[/underline]] or dagger-ace, with its point depressed in front of his horse (see enlarged rubbing, Fig. 52).  There was of course no way of determining the age of this seal with any approach to accuracy; but for several reasons we thought it most likely contemporary with the bronze weapons that we found with it---o^[[f]] about the last quarter, that is to say, of the 1st millennium B.C. [[superscript]] (262) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (262) [[/superscript]] Thus in Chavannes' [[underline]] Miss. Archéologique dans la Chine Septentrionale[[/underline]] , Portfolio of Plates, Part I, pl. xxvi (especially the lower register),