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igure 8 Siler elradrachia fon looer Tylosleel (d ce١١١٠ BC).
redecessors hae clearly found in other 2ones of the tell of Oa!'at, and of hich the
imortance to the history and urbanisation of the site is self-eicdent (cf. Lombard and
erran 199).

t is at the ery end of this hase, or slightly after i,t that it is right to lace the
ecetional series of fifteen fig‫ﻫ‬red stelae discoered in June 1991 in a riate alm
groe to the north of the site. Folloing on this accidential discoery, the oner
authorised our team to ecaate an eloratory trench, hich roduced trhee ne
stelae ans some fragments sculted in the same sandstone to of them reresent
figures dress in long robes ith folds, the right hand raised, alm turned frontard
(Figre 9 ٨-b).

Figure 9 - Seles in the Parthin tradition fond in the northern alngroe (ca. 2dlrd cent, AD),