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 4OO HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. facsimile of that held by a figurine from Amorgos, now in the Museum at Athens ; another is a female figure with a crescent on her head, resembling in every respect the Tenos exemplar. All these statuettes have a strong family likeness to those which come from the islands ; in them we have another proof that the primitive inhabitants of the islands as held by Thucydides belonged to the Carian stock " (" Discoveries in Asia Minor," Hell. Studies, vol. ix. pp. 82-87). Should other dis- coveries of the like nature be made in Caria, they would not only confirm the inference to be drawn from this first " find," but forthwith so lve the problem ; we could then boldly assign a Carian origin to all the statuettes of the islands. Page 390, note 4. Closer examination of the cylinder, which exhibits an offering to the dove, has led M. Mdnant to withdraw the attribution of it to Persia. He now finds that the intaglio is not connected in any way with the Achgemenidae, and that the so-called king is a woman. See Catalogue de la collection Le Clercq, torn. i. pp. 211, 212, and note No. 385.