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 178 Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Art, that, whilst arranging and sorting out these countless rude idols, we succeeded in making out the human figure even in those marble and trachyte pieces, shaped like violins, which have reached us from the burnt city of Hissarlik (Fig. 322).' That here the human Fig. 323. — Bone idol. Seven-eighlhs. Ftg. 324. — Marble idol. Aclual siie. figure was intended, admits of no doubt. Though the limbs are suppressed, the artisan has chalked in, after a fashion of his own, the head, neck, and body." A step in advance ts made in a bone statuette (Fig. 323), where the different parts of the body are Fig. 315.— Temi-colta idol. Half-size. shown. The legs and arms are as yet deficient, but their point of attachment to the body is marked by a slight salience which ' SCHLIEMANN, IHOS. local marble, and belonging to the first stage of tbis industry, reach us from the Cyclades (Bent, Restarehes among Ihe Cydades, in Hellenic Studies).
 * Our examples are borrowed from Troy ; but specimens quite as rude, cut in