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 POTTERV. 389 (Fig. 475, and tail-piece of chapter). We have seen it disporting itself amidst the sea-weeds and madrepores which carpet the surface of submerged rocks, and which compose the decoration of one of the most curious vases of the art (Fig. 429). We Bnd it again on a fellow vase, which is so strikingly alike to the above in point of execution as to look as if it had come from Kiu. 477.— The Marseilles ewer. the same workshop (Fig. 476), and it rears its head on the Marseilles ewer (Figs. 477, 479). By far the best representation of the octopus is seen on a stone vase from Mycense (Fig. 478). The workman, it would appear, took the eledone for his model, which differs from the polyp in having but one set of breathing apparatus Instead of two. The rendering of the animal is true to nature ; its eight suckers, its pair of big eyes, and the bag which forms the body are all In place ; whereas the treatment of the decoration on a