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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. 303 appear the leaves and flourishes peculiar to the palmette. The animals are nearly as hard to define as the ornament between FIG. 241. Winged horse on a vase in the New York Museum. them. If they are not bulls, we cannot tell what they are. The fact is the whole thing is a pasticcio, and a clumsy one, upon that FIG. 242. Vase from Citium. 1 favourite motive of the Assyrian decorator, a sacred tree between two rampant quadrupeds. In ChalcLnea, in Assyria, even in 1 From CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 55.