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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. while at Nineveh and Nimroud the latter is often shown discharg- ing his shafts to the rear. 1 These resemblances cannot be denied, but they are caused by the fact that all war chariots, having to fulfil similar duties, had a strong family likeness to each other. If we examine this picture in detail, we shall find nothing to suggest that the Cypriot artisan had an Assyrian model before him when he painted it. The only detail which we might think FIG. 251. CEnochoe in the British Museum. Height loi inches. borrowed from the East is the oblong label, which bears a certain likeness to the framed inscriptions we encounter on Mesopotamian reliefs, but we have already seen that the motive in question was acclimatized very early in Cyprus. With this single exception the whole vase is thoroughly local. The figures with their bare heads and short beards and hair have nothing Assyrian about 1 LAYARD, The Monuments of Ninn-ch, folio, 1849, plate x. VOL. II.