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CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. 285 balance the other. They must have been made in two pieces ; I had an opportunity of examining a bottle of the kind in the FIG. 216. Bottle in the Piot collection. British Museum, and the line of junction round the centre of its body could be clearly followed. FlG. 217. Vase in the Piot collection. Another shape scarcely known out of Cyprus is the gourd form of bottle, which may have been suggested to the potter by some of those calabashes which are to be found in nearly all hot