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 6o A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud.ka. and two swords whose points are broken ; rude " cacles " are kept in place by hook and ball, displaying the ankles and sandalled feet. The next carries a whole panoply, consisting of shields and short javelins arranged fan-like fashion, besides a broad dagger which juts between the two shields. The head- dress of the first figure is adorned with three horns, and with one only in the other. The mul- tiplicity of visual or- gans, limbs, and weapons,which could not belong to or be handled by one man at the same time, make it clear that the intention of the simple and unskilful artist was to portray supernatural beings and not common types of humanity. All nations had re- course, more or less, to this early mode of procedure in their endeavours to ex- press their idea of the power of their deities. Thuswefind among the Greeks themselves a three- bodied Geryon, an Height, 15 c. From Wallet. . . . Argus whose hun- dred eyes are ever open. Although we have no data respecting the religion of the Sardi, we may, without rashness, hazard the opinion that this figure was intended to represent a barbarous Mars, whose keen glance and well-equipped, far-reaching arm marked him for