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are painted red. As usual this rolor was applied along with the slip 

 and in polishino- has become much mixed up with it. giving a mottle<l 

 effect. The handles take the formof curious hum;in-appearing tigures 



rir 1 \ a. I H luiiuan figures — f-. 



which sit against the coustiittKl neck their heads supporting the 

 rim and theii feet lestmg upon the shcnilder of the vessel. In one 

 case the hands aie held tightlj agaiubt the lower part of the face and 

 in the other they are bound together against the chin by a serpent- 

 like cord of clay. The hollow figures forming the legs of the vase 

 are as grotesque as could well be imagined. There is no head what- 

 ever, and the outlandish features are placed upon the front of the 

 upper part of the body. The arms and hands take the conventional 

 position characteristic of the statuary of the isthmian states and the 

 only traces of costume are bands about the wrists and a girdle encir- 

 cling the lower part of the body. 



I add, in Fig. 153, one more example, a large, full Ixxlied vase, 

 which, more decidedly perhaps than any of the foregoing, pro- 

 claims its relationship to the preceding group. If the three rather 

 clumsy legs were knocked off there would remain a large beautifiilly 

 shaped ,t]i(l fliiislird \ asf. with a constricted biit flaring rim not in any 

 way (li^t iii-iiisli,il)|i' iioiii those of the jjreceding group. The legs in 

 this case ai-i' Irss pcrfi.M-tly adapted to the vessel than in the other 

 examples, as if Ihe potter, skillful in modeling the vessel, had only 

 recently undertaken to add the tripod. The slit in the outer face of 

 the leg is unusually wide and the iTirloscd ball is three-fourths of an 

 inch in diameter. The most remarkalilc Icature of this vessel is the 

 pair of unique figures affixed to the ujipi r surface of the body near the 

 lijj, and which would seem to be intended to represent semihuman 

 monsters. The arms and legs are contorted and serpent-like in ap- 

 pearance and terminate in most cases in heads of serpents instead <jf 



