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 InoLS. 191 and implored by the builders of Tiryns and Mycenae with the names they bear in the Iliad and Odyssey. The female deities from the Argolic graves fall naturally under three heads. There is first the goddess clothed in a long tunic, whose arms are more frequently outstretched than crossed on the bust (Figs. 331, 333, 338, 339, 340, 341). The goddess with a babe is but a variety of this type (Fig. 334). Then comes the goddess on the golden plates from the Mycenian acropolis, whose character is defined, as in the Euphrates Valley, by the doves hovering about her (Figs. 289, 290). In order to verify the Oriental origin of this type, we have only to place by the side