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Idols. 195 went out after the Myceniaii period. Nor should the broad salient band seen around the hips of this image be unnoticed, A scarf, also in relief, falls from the waist and reaches the flounces below. The rendering may be different, but the device is the same as that of our clay statuette (Fig. 338). Elsewhere, in this same series, we come across a specimen with loose hair falling Fir. 345, — Female siatuelte of bronze. Height, o m., 19. low behind (Fig. 334). But the single plait of the shapeless clay doll is quite straight. In the bronze piece a more cunning art has gathered the hair into a knot on the top of the head, and then parted it into two plaits which reach the middle. On being taken out of the mould, the figure was touched up with the burin, to indicate here the outline of the twisted hair or the shadow on the bosom, there to mark, by criss-work, the woollen nature of the fabric.