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Pottery. 363 the bosom serve further to indicate the character of the image (Figs. 244, 369). On one vase the arms are even crossed in front on the body.' The most comphcated piece is a vase which represents a woman carrying a tureen on her head, and pressing against her breast a double-handled cup, which she holds up with both hands. Two rows of beads are about her neck (Fig. 448). The incised style of ornament which we see on the whorls shows a great stride forward (Figs. 54, 56, 449). True, some are quite plain (Fig. 54), but the vast majority of specimens offer Fig. 4 14. ^Double -111 mil c<i vase. Actual fri:. patterns of the most varied kind, crosses, squares, rays starting from the centre, fancifully broken lines, twigs, chevrons, dots, stars, and the like. Animal forms — insects, porpoises, and quadrupeds — are rudely figured on some of these whorls.^ We also find a ball similarly ornamented ; but, unlike the fusaioles, it has no hole in the middle. These when decorated must have served as ornaments. We cannot make good our hypothesis as far as Troy is concerned ; but we have evidences from graves discovered in Italy, where ' SCHLIEMASN, UtOS. « /,*//