. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 123. HAKESMA (b(trsoiil) WITH STAXD. Modem 1ersia. From drawing in the Story of Media, Babylon and Persia. Fig. 124. ASSYRIAN ALTAR. Compare BareMina with stand, :s. From drawing in the Story of Media, Bhbylon In ancient China the nobles of the highest ranks carried scepters ofjade stone,2 the name of which, , is written with a character, whichcompounded with the radical for hand, stands for hwd, to divinewith straws, No. 65; and again, withjpwfc, to divine. written on theright, for the hwd or divinatory diagrams formed of unbroken andbro
. Chess and playing cards. Fig. 123. HAKESMA (b(trsoiil) WITH STAXD. Modem 1ersia. From drawing in the Story of Media, Babylon and Persia. Fig. 124. ASSYRIAN ALTAR. Compare BareMina with stand, :s. From drawing in the Story of Media, Bhbylon In ancient China the nobles of the highest ranks carried scepters ofjade stone,2 the name of which, , is written with a character, whichcompounded with the radical for hand, stands for hwd, to divinewith straws, No. 65; and again, withjpwfc, to divine. written on theright, for the hwd or divinatory diagrams formed of unbroken andbroken These diagrams may be regarded as representing thepermutations of two faced staves, three producing the trigranis fig. 5), I am indebted to Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, of Columbia University, for an oppor-tunity to examine a set of Ian sum, presented to him with a set of Bacrificial imple-ments by Mr. Dinshah Pestanji Pramji Ghadiali. Tiny consist of a bundle of forty-three bright brass wires 5 inches in Leng
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