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 Primitive Greece : Mycenian Art. Animal Representation. If at the early dale when the second Trojan town was built the potter looked to the female figure for the elements of his incipient decoration, far more readily must he have turned to Fig. 38J.— Clay vase. One-lhird of actual size. animals, as much simpler and more easily hit off. It is impossible not to recognize some such intention in a number of vases belonging to that remote period ; where the recipient, except Oiic-foHtth of actual si handle and spout, is an abridged copy of some animal.' Thus in Fig. 383 we have the fat, heavy outline of a mother-pig, and the elongated head of a porcupine in Fig. 384. The three ' SCTILIEM.'VNN, Ilu<i.