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 CERAMICS IN CYPRUS. shoulders they carry one of those long-horned goats which are still to be met with in the mountains of Cyprus. The design as a whole is almost childish, but the game is drawn with no little precision. FIG. 253. CEnochoe. 1 A certain vase with black figures from Curium should not be classed as Cypriot pottery ; 2 on it is represented the combat of Hercules with the Nemean lion. Close to the figures appear Greek inscriptions, and the work is Hellenic in all its details. FIG. 254. Ship, from painting on above vase. Like many other things found in the same place, it must have been made in some fabrique of Greece proper. 3 1 From CESNOLA, Cyprus, pi. xlv. 2 Ibid., pp. 401 and 411. 3 Another vase found in Cyprus, but most likely of Greek origin, is that represented on page 410 of CESNOLA (Cyprus). The ornament on its shoulder, a kind of garland composed of long pendant buds, is to be found exactly in the same place and used in the same way on many Greek vases with black figures. The only thing that seems foreign to the habits of Greek workmen in the case of this vase is the large floral design which appears on its side, on the place where Hellenic potters were accustomed to put figures. At Cameiros, however, an almost exactly similar vase was found. It is now in London (MURRAY, in Cesnola's Cyprus, p. 411) ; it is possible that the example from Cyprus was made at Rhodes.