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Idols. 199 tomb (Fig. 351).' Such we may picture to ourselves was the accoutrement of the companions of Achylles, as they made trial of their strength around the funereal pyre of Patroclus, or that of the athletes who will contend for those chaplets given to reward strength and agility at the great Hellenic games. Com- plete nudity did not come in until the thirtieth Olympiad. We Kic. 350. — IttoQie idols. AcIubI size. have this same scanty costume in a glass-paste, representing a soldier on the march (Fig- 352). The lower part of the figure alone remains, and a bit of the border of said drawers is seen on the thigh. It cannot be denied that there is a curious analogy between the pair of small figures from Tiryns and Mycen^ on the one ' See ante, Vul. 1. p. 40U.