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 FIGURES OF DIVINITIES. borders, as well as by the form of the temples and the nature of the rites there celebrated. The Greeks of Cyprus were, so to FIG. 97. Limestone statue found at Cyprus. Height 5 feet. Louvre. speak, only half Greek ; our study of the monuments they have left us will help us to understand the effects of what, in the language of physiology, we may call an arrested development. 5. Figures of Divinities, Of all the figures brought to light by the excavations in Cyprus, those apparently the oldest can hardly be anything but images of the divinity ; rough and barbarous as they are, we can divine under their awkward forms those plastic conceptions which were