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 398 Primitive Gkeece: Mycenian Art. a jug from lalysos occurs again and again on the products of this ceramic art ; it consists of a number of cylinders interspersed with pellets, and continued up to the necking or the handle with four or more spirals. The two central ones are connected with each other, but all are joined to the collar or handle of the vase (Fig. 456). Some have identified cylinder and wngglings with the serpula, a species of worm of the family of the Annelida, Fig. 481. — Ossuary from Ctele. Length, 99 c. which lives in the moist sand of the sea-shore ; but the resem- blance is very far-fetched indeed. If the form represented by the potter bears a general resemblance to the serpula, the maeanders or zigzags are his own addition. This annelid returns with the actinia on a stirrup -handled vase, where a large fish forms the principal object (Fig. 484). Birds, outside of these vases, where they are associated with the sea element, are rare enough. A fragment of pottery discovered atj Spata has a bird shockingly ill-drawn (Fig. 485). The image