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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. horses in this picture have plumes on their heads as on the sar- cophagi (Figs. 139 and 140). The men and horses in these two vase paintings are of singular barbarity, and the vases themselves must either date from a remote antiquity l or their decoration must have been left to very inferior workmen. 2 FIG. 249. Vase from Amathus. New York Museum. The British Museum possesses a very interesting vase be- onging to the same series. It is Cypriot beyond a doubt ; the 1 This supposition seems to be contradicted by the good shape and generally skilful technics of the Amathus vase. The true explanation is, in all probability, the alternative one given above. 2 In the De Clercq collection there is a large vase on which a scene analogous to that shown in our figs. 249 and 250 is painted ; unfortunately, the pictures are greatly effaced. Several figures ride in a single chariot, which is preceded and followed by women on foot. It may represent a religious procession.