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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. 293 to be resisted. How could they be expected to attack nature, and to face all the uncertainties such an attack involved, when they FIG. 226. Vessel in shape of a rhinoceros, Feuardent collection. had the results achieved by those who had already overcome those uncertainties to borrow from. The forms perfected by the Asiatics and Egyptians before them were known and accredited, and the FIG. 227. Amphora. From Cesnola. 1 Cypriot potter repeated them slavishly, so far at least as the vegetable world was concerned. 1 Cyprus, p. 402.