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 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. of teeth, as if by the supreme agony of death. The technique has breadth, but of a clashing kind. It has nothing of that dry precision and striving after elegance which characterize the archaic productions of Camiros, classable in the eighth and seventh centuries b.c. There are no indications of hair on the Fig. 37a — Terra-colts head. Height of face, o m., 13. face, and what is stranger still, of ears. The qualities and defects of this peculiar face are those that belong to a primitive epoch. Tiryns sends us scarcely any figures, except idols. The very rudimentary image we print below is taken from every- day life, and represents a person standing before a table in