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Bronzes, Statuettes, Votive Boats. 6 i superior sagacity and valour. Statuettes of this kind are few, 1 the vast majority is but a faithful rendering of everyday people such as the artist beheld around him and which he essayed to portray, be it as warriors, hunters, priests, or domestic characters. Soldiers, whether swordsmen or archers, form the richest and far away most interest- ing group of the whole series. Among the former may be noted Fig. 53, 2 carrying a short, broad sword ; in Fig. 54, however, often Fig. 53. — Statuette from Fig. 54. — Statuette Fig. 55. — Statuette from Fig, 56. — Statuette from Uta. Height, 22 c. from Senorbi. Teti. Height, 22 c. Teti. Height, 28 c. Cagliari Museum. Cagliari Museum. Cagliari Museum. Cagliari Museum. From Wallet. From Wallet. From Wallet. mentioned by Pais as the " Senorbi warrior," a very long, narrow one is displayed. In the latter class, numerically much stronger, an archer is seen bending his bow about to shoot (Fig. 55) ; he is straightening it in the next (Fig. 56), a long, bearded rod appearing 1 Statuettes of this class, as against the more common, bear the proportion of one-fifth or one-sixth in the whole number that have been dug up. 2 This figure, one of the best specimens in the Sardinian art-cycle, was recovered, in 1849, at Monte Arcuasu, parish of Uta, seventeen or eighteen kilometres north-west of Cagliari, under a huge stone, with other eight and an equal number of long swords, the point of one of which terminates in a bull's head. This "find" is rendered the more interesting from the fact that it took place some miles only from a Phoenician centre. See, too, Spano's letter addressed to La Marmora, describing these various objects, and reproduced as an Appendix to Bui. Arch. Sard., 3 me . anne'e, 1857, entitled, Antico Larario Sardo di Uta. The whole series of the Uta statuettes may be seen in Cara's book, Rdazione sulli idoli, etc., Pt. I., taken from Spano's work.