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march three servants bearing his bows, arrows and lances. The three horsemen who come next have no arms. They carry nothing but whips, with which they seem to urge on their steeds ; we may look upon them as grooms with the king's spare horses. The next two horsemen are combatants, for they are armed with long lances. Next comes a camel led by a half-naked servant, then more horsemen, and the defile closes with infantrymen armed with the lance and a circular shield ; on the part pre- served there is nothing to mark the head of the procession ; perhaps the fragment which has perished contained some indication of the sort. Representations of this kind were popular both with artists and their clients. We give a fragment from the external zone of a silver cup of a different shape from that of the bowls we have been discussing (Fig. 273) ; it is much deeper ; it comes from the ancient tomb at Caere from which we have already taken more than one example. Religious scenes are also to be met with here, as, for instance, in the case of another patera from Dali (Fig. 206). We may, perhaps, take this as the oldest of all these monuments. The
