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 The Human Figure as Decorative Element. 255 the act of making bread (Fig. 372). The sex is not indicated, but the occupation is of the kind which generally falls to the lot of the women of the household in a primitive state of society ; besides, the figure is clad in a long trailing tunic, which it is natural to associate with a woman. Remains of artistic furniture have been collected in the graves of Menidi, of Spata, Fig. 371. — Same head shown in profile. Total heiglit, o m., 13a. and the rock -cut vaults at Mycense. The same type or thereabouts is seen on a couple of ivory plates from Spata and Mycenie. They both belonged to some casket or other piece of furniture ; the larger and best preserved is from Mycenae {Figs. 359, 373).' The type seems -to have been quite the fashion ; for it not only served to fix the plaque to the object which it adorned.
 * M. Tsoundas' draughtsman has omitted the two small holes for the nails that