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Left panel- inlaid or veneered barks and applied leather
tinted green - hartebeest, oryx, ibex, gazelle and hyena,
pierced with arrows, with plants in field.
Right panel - inlaid or veneered barks and applied leather
tinted green - hartebeests, ibex, and hare, pierced with
arrows, with plants in field.
Left tapering end of case - (1) a panel of veneered barks,
applied leather, minute gilding, and blue and green
irridescent beetles' wings - representing the king as a human-headed lion trampling upon an Asiatic and African foe; (2)
bands of garland, palmette, and diaper pattern, of veneer
barks, applied minute gilding and leather; (3) terminating
with a head of a cheetah in violet faience and gilded mane.
Right tapering end of case - same as the left end described
above, save the king as a lion tramples upon only one of the
African foe.
Back of case - covered as far as the encircling patterns at
the ends with linen glued to the surface of the wood.
Front of case - including the lid (described above), garland
pattern of veneered
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