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 75 A History of Art i. Sardinia and Jud.ka. which the inventive faculty of the artificer had shown itself in diversity of forms ; an hypothesis easily refuted by observation Fir.. 82.— Votive Boat. Cagliari Museum. Length iegna, Plate VI., fig. 3. of the most casual kind ; for scores of these lamps have nothing which recalls in the remotest degree a lamp-burner, through which Fig. 83. — Votive Boat. Cagliari Museum. Length, 15 c. Pais, La Sardegna, Plate VI., fig. 2. the wick could be passed. On the other hand, as they were some- times perforated the liquid would have run out ; and as all found intact were, moreover, fur- nished with rings or hoops, it is clear that they were meant for suspension. A certain amount of variety is displayed in the shape of these boats : thus, for instance, Fig. 82 is possessed of neither stern nor bow; variety being obtained in half a dozen figures of exceedingly rude make, wherein we must fain recognize animals of the porcine species. On one side is seen a thin, elongated, four-legged creature ; vaguely recalling a lizard. Prows of greater or less Fig. 84.— Votive Boat. Height, 9 c. Boll., 1884, Plate I., fig. 8.