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Chapter XXXYVI., and the only explanation of this
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unusual vignette is that the scribe confused the proper name Apshait with the word for “pig,” shad Inns Ee Sy and wrote down the latter word. The artist, seeing the word for “pig” in the text, drew the picture of a pig in the vignette. The following is the vignette :—
! Or, ‘‘I report [my] message to Nebes” (or Nebses).
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