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I noLs. 205 with the first, is less rudimentary, and the arrangement of the limbs evinces greater skill. The feet and part of the legs are broken, but they were firmly planted on the ground In the left hand is held the instrument, which rests on the right thigh ; the other hand, now broken, was stretched towards the equally- absent strings. The harp-like instrument, which is larger below than above, where it terminates in a swan's neck of a purely Kic. 354.— Mnrble slaliielle of mtisician. IIalf-sii«. ornamental character, is no other than the <raju,&w$ or (ra/t^wxTj, to which the ancients ascribed a Syrian origin. Another tomb has furnished a less well-preserved harpist, and the British Museum contains several stone figures from Camiros representing flute- players. The manipulation is a little less archaic than that of the Cyclades statuettes ; their fabrication and the material of which they are made bring them near to the Cypriote examples. That these islanders were more polished, and provided with far