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 Animal Representation. must have served as lid to a second casket (Fig. 401). The animals are lying down, their bodies turned towards the centre Fig. 401. — Ivory disc. of the plate, their legs folded against the outer rim. A less symmetrical but more varied arrangement is seen on what Fig. 402.— Wood disc. Actual size. must have been the lid of a wooden box {Fig. 402). In of no great antiquity, and there is nothing to show that the ram had a symbolic and sepulchral character in the Mycenian period.