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"Slim": The Torso

If the iconography on "Slim's" head and mask relates that part of his body to avians and the celestial realm, the incised iconography of the two scepters and bent arms associated the torso of the statue with the rituals of rulership that are performed in the earthly realm (figure 5).

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