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Others, apparently of the same nationality, kneel with upraised hands, as if begging for quarter.
Two negro prisoners lying face downwards upon the ground, lift their heads with difficulty.
A large vase with a short foot and a lofty cone-shaped cover stands amid the trees.[78] The craftsmen who made this piece evidently valued elegance and beauty less than richness.
They cared little for the heavy effect and bad taste of the whole, provided only that they were praised for their skill, and for the quantity of metal which they had succeeded in using.
Other vases of the same type, pictured in a scene of presentations to Rameses II. in the great temple of Abu Simbel, vary the subject by showing buffaloes running in and out among the trees, in place of led giraffes.
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