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Kneeling Archer
He is one kind of an armored infantryman. The statue was unearthed from the center of the archer formation, which is located northeast of Pit 2.
The pose of both hands evidences that this figure originally held one crossbow. Altogether, 160 kneeling archers were found in Pit 2.
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