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 Characteristics of Mycenian Sculpture. 323 did not arise from the choice of subject, for in itself it would be insufficient to cHnch the question. If the wild bull does not appear on Phcenician bronze and silver bowls, whereon are represented lion and stag-hunts, he is brought down by the arrows of the sportsman in the wall-paintings of a hypogasum Fig. 417. — Aalelope chased through a tangle ofpapjrus. at Thebes;^ whilst he is depicted overthrowing his would-be captors in a bas-relief of unknown origin, but obviously influenced by Egypt and Chaldaea.* At any rate, the subject figured on many specimens of Mycenian glyptics, on an intaglio (Fig. 421, 24) for example, and above Flu. 42S. — Mush from an Egyptian paiotiiig. all on the celebrated wall-painting at Tiryns {Fig. 432), is mani- festly the same as that of the Vaphio goblets. Now, if it is just possible to assume a foreign origin for the gems, we cannot do so for the painting, which was executed on the spot by work- men that must have been domiciled in the country. What is there ' F. Cailliaud, Recherckes sur les arts el miliers de FEgypte.
 * L. Heuzev, Un profoiype des taureaux de Mycirus el tTAmyclhs.