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Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art. The nose has been pressed out of shape, and it is difficult to judge what it looked like. The mouth is rendered by a curved inden- ture, which goes off at each corner into so long a line that the ends can no longer be part of the mouth. Each end is joined by another line coming from the corner of the nose, and as the space thus enclosed is somewhat raised, the simple artificer probably meant to indicate a moustache. The lower lip is very thin, and the chin bears no trace of a beard. The ears are misshapen, Fig. 365.— Gotd mask. About Ihrec-eigliths of origin*! siie. and placed a great deal too high. The two other masks from this grave are so much alike that one only of them has been figured here. It is also the best preserved (Fig. 365), and the hand that modelled them had resources at its command which are to seek with its predecessor. The eyelashes and the brows are rendered by incised strokes. If there are no traces of a moustache or beard, it is probably because the wearer of the mask was young. The features are regular : a long, straight nose, a small mouth with full lips. The eyes are very small and closed. The sculptor's inexperience betrays itself in the slanting line between