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 68 A History of Art in Sardinia and J un. va. bronzes. 1 This absence of beard invests the faces with a uni- form look which gives them an air of being closely related to one another, whilst the reverse is observable in head-dresses remarkable for their endless variety. Thus, for instance, two horned helmets with plain border (Figs. 5 and 54) are met here and there ; now they are plumed and dentelled (Figs. 58-62) ; sometimes they are conical caps, bringing to remembrance a certain class of Cypriote figures; or again (Fig. 67) akin to the Etruscan " tutulus." In this statuette the arms are wide apart, as though to display the amplitude of his mantle, whilst a patera is held in his left hand. Almost the same attitude is seen in the next statuette (Fig. 68), 2 far more injured, whose left hand is broken, but whose patera was deeper and alto- gether on a larger pattern. The long tails, but more especi- ally the mushroom-shaped hat of this figure, recalls the ex- treme East, and should not pass unnoticed. Female figures are extremely rare. Among the multitudinous specimens recovered at Abini, near Teti, one only was a woman. 3 The dress so closely resembles that worn by the women in the interior of the island, that doubt as to its authenticity might be raised, had it not been dug up by M. Gouin's workmen in the presence of a trusty overseer. It consists of a tight-fitting body reaching below the hips, where it is taken up by a plaited petti- coat ending above the ankle. A round hooded cape completes the costume. 4 It is certainly a curious fact that in statuettes — over fifty in number figuring Sardi soldiers — a sole mounted 1 Pais, Bollettino, p. 84-86, 1884. 2 History of Art, torn. iii. Plate II. The same cap is seen on a small figure recovered at Dogali on the east coast, and figured in La Marmora's Atlas, Plate XXVII. fig. 100. 8 La Marmora, Atlas, Fig. 124, exhibiting a hooded figure. 4 La Marmora, Voyage, torn. i. p. 234, and Atlas, Plate III. fig. 2 (Des Femmes). Fig. 67.— Statuette unearthed Fig. 68.— Statuette at Baunei, near Lanussi. fromTeti. Height, Cagliari Museum. From nc. From Wal- Wallet. let.