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Metal. 437 had four handles in place of two, and it is plain from the above lines that it was much larger than ours ; but apart from these points of divergence, its general appearance must have been very —Silver nalera. Diameter, I near the specimen we engrave below. The principal figures, the doves placed about the mouth of the vase, were borrowed by the potter from the goldsmith. Thus, Cypriote fictile vases without Fir,, sas-— B'"""^ ^^*'- ^*'Bti ^7 '^■ handles exhibit doves in the same position.' New types appear with the tombs that belong to the latter end of the Mycenian period. If a small cenochce from Menidi (Fig. 523) is but a ' Rf.INACH, Cfirotiit/ues d'Orunf,