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Inscription

 
The remnants of an inscription were found during a detailed conservation examination on the foremost dog's collar lower centre. The inscription is in brown paint on a yellow ochre coloured background. It is worn and obscured by discoloured varnish making it difficult to decipher but appears to read:

F. Snyd... fecit
 

Photographic detail of inscriptionDiagram of inscription
 
The pigment of the inscription and the pigment of the base paint are probably both iron oxide making differentiation between the two layers difficult with standard analytical instrumentation.

 

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