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1901.] Section IV. — Pottery , Terracottas , Miscellaneous Objects. 
reecls. No. 6 shows another figure, playing with a pair of cymbals, or 
possibly a woman braiding her hair. Nos. 7-18 show a great variety 
of line ornaments, accompanying, almost invariably, various forms of 
faces or masks. Among them, there are rosettes (No. 11), garlands 
(Nos. 14, 15), nets or circles of lines or dots (Nos. 16-18), wavy lines 
(No. 11), rows of semicircles or arches (No. 11), etc. No. 19 shows 
what probably was the handle of a cup. 7 Nos. 20-23 show fragments 
of the rim of three large vessels. The rim of one (No. 20) was adorned 
with a series of full figures : two men, in laygott, wrestling ; a monkey 
squatting on its haunches and holding a large vessel or melon ; 8 an 
elephant with upturned trunk, carrying two men who squat on its back, 
facing one another; a dead bird hung neck upwards (P). Nos. 21 and 
22 show the same fragment, inside and outside respectively. The former 
is adorned with three rosettes, above a perforated ledge : the latter, with 
a Buddhist railing, enclosing a decorated (conventional) cliaitya , and 
the half figure of a man wearing a torquis. The rim, shown in No. 23, 
was adorned with a series of ornamental arches, within them the usual 
Gandharvas with garlands, in the triangular interstices small rosettes, 
and above the whole a double circle of alternate beads and lines. 
Plate X. 
Nos. 1-19 of this Plate illustrate the great variety of heads, or 
rather masks, used as ornaments. They all show traces of having 
originally been attached to the sides of jars. They were moulded 
separately and stuck on to the jar before it was baked ; and they come 
off with comparative ease, especially from pieces saturated with salines. 
Apparently they were used, as a rule, by themselves ; but occasionally, 
as shown by a fragment in Dr. Sven Hedin’s collection, the head belonged 
to a whole applique figure. Nos. 1 and 2 show pieces of the jar still 
adhering to them. No. 7 shows the identical mask of which another 
specimen is still adhering to the fragment of a jar in Plate IX, No. 17. 
Some of the masks represent the faces of men, some with a moustache 
(No. 2), others clean-shaven (No. 5), others with round beard (No. 6). 
Nos. 7-9 show women’s faces ; some with earrings (Nos. 7, 8), others 
with a sort of frill round them (No. 9). Some of the faces (Nos. 10-17) 
are made to look canine or feline, with protruding tongue (No. 14), or 
roaring with open mouth (No. 15), or showing the teeth (No. 16). 
7 I have observed Mykenian cups with similar handles in the British and 
Ashmolean Museums. 
8 In his Beschreibung der Vasensammlung im Aquarium Professor Furtwangler 
notices an early Greek vase from Nola, decorated with a sitting monkey who holds, 
in front of him on his knees, a bulging krater. 
