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‘The back of a bronze mirror [from 13th-century Amid (Dyarbakr) of the Artukids]* (Collection of Prince Ottingen-Wallenstein) shows signs of the Zodiac arranged around a spread-eagle, like those on the walls of Amid, and seven busts of men, like figures in Armenian churches.’

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**– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3: 443]

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