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Painting. 343 animal from which the painter borrowed the lower limbs of his composite type. The similar images engraved on glyptics represent a monster, now with a bird's feet, now with the paws of a lion. But whether Hon, wolf, or horse-headed, these fiends are no other than the ancestors of the satyrs and centaurs of Greek poetry. Like these they were fabled to share the thick tangle of forests with wild beasts, which they loved to capture, and whose spoils they carried into their caves. If the attribution of a hunting- Flti. 431. — t'rsgmcnl of mural jminling. Aclunl sizti. scene is purely conjectural as regards the fragments in question, no such doubt exists about the famous fresco which Schliemann discovered in the Tirynthian palace (Fig. 432).' The picture was enframed by a band, with red lines led across from side to side. Below the band, a mighty bull, painted yellow on a bluish background, is madly galloping to the left. The modelling of the body and tufts of hair is rendered by red strokes and patches of the same colour, laid on with the brush. The head is short, the eye large, round, and truculent ; it carries a pair ' SuHLiKMANN, Tirym.