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INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 293 figures that make up the pattern. One is a nude woman ; the hands point to her breast, and the abdomen and the pelvis are rendered with gross realism. Examples of this clumsy insistance have already been figured in this history, in reference to the terra-cottas of Susiana and the ivories of Assyria. 1 Left of this personage is another somewhat smaller, robed in the long tunic of a Chaldsean priest, with six flounces of crimped work. The FIG. 209. Mould of serpentine. Actual size. Louvre. Drawn by Wallet. characteristic gesture of the female figure, the absence of any drapery, proclaim the goddess-mother, Istar or Anahith, of the religions of Anterior Asia. 3 From the fact that the dressed personage has no special attribute, we find greater difficulty in giving him a name ; one is tempted to recognize in him a god rather than a priest, since the images produced by the mould would be meaningless, unless they were portable puppet-gods or Lares. The other subjects incised on the slab of serpentine are less 1 Hist, of Art, torn. ii. Figs. 16, 231, 232. 2 Ibid., pp. 83, 505, 507, 606; torn. iii. pp. 419, 450, 455, 610, 783; torn. iv. pp. 532, 808.