CELT WITH GNOSTIC INSCRIPTIONS.
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face in the form of a wreath; and it was doubtless regarded as in itself possessed of mystic power, by some Greek of
Fig. 11.—Celt with Gnostic Inscription. (The upper figure actual size, the lower enlarged.)
Alexandria, where it seems to have been engraved. It is shown in Fig. 11, here reproduced from the Archæological Journal. Another celt not from Egypt, but from Greece proper,
