=Toys.=--Children of all ages and nations bear a great resemblance to one another; consequently, it is not surprising, though it is always interesting, to find that Greek and Roman toys are often very similar to those of modern times. At the corner of Case J is a series of small reproductions of furniture, implements and the like in lead, bronze, pottery and terracotta (No. =592=). Often no doubt, they are simply toys, like the furniture of a doll's house. Sometimes, however, they must be supposed to have had a more serious votive character in a temple. In some cases, perhaps, they were of both kinds. Among the treasures of Hera at Olympia, the traveller Pausanias saw a small couch said to have been a plaything of Hippodameia,[74] and it was not uncommon for children on growing up to dedicate their toys in a temple. [Illustration: FIG. 231.--GREEK TOY JUG (NO. 591). 1:1 and 1:2.] [Illustration: FIG. 232.--GREEK TERRACOTTA DOLL (NO. 593). Ht. 5-1/8 in.] [Illustration: FIG. 233.--OLD WOMAN ON MULE (NO. 596). 1:1.] [Illustration: FIG. 234.--SEATED DOLL, WITH MARRIAGE-BOWL, EPINETRON AND SHOES (NO. 599). Ca. 1:2.] [Illustration: FIG. 235.--TERRACOTTA MODEL TOPS AND DESIGN FROM VASE-PAINTING. (NO. 600). Ht. of Model on right, 4-1/4 in.] The dolls that survive from Greek times were chiefly of terracotta, and frequently furnished with movable arms and legs. It will be noticed that most of these dolls have holes pierced in the top of their heads for the passage of strings connected with the arms and sometimes with the legs. These would produce a movement of the arms and legs, and explain the term [Greek: neurospasta] ("drawn by strings") applied to these dolls. In Xenophon's _Symposium_ a travelling showman speaks of being kept by the profits drawn from such puppets.[75] One, holding castanets, is illustrated here (fig. 232; No. =593=). We get allusions in literature to these dolls and other small terracotta figures, which show that one of their chief uses was the amusement of children. One writer[76] speaks of "those who make little figures of clay in the form of all kinds of animals destined for the beguiling of little children." Such a figure is that of the donkey with a sea-perch tied on its back (No. =594=) or the fascinating group of the little boy on the goose (No. =595=), and the old woman on the mule (No. =596=; fig. 233). Many of these toys bring vividly to mind country scenes in Greece at the present day. Though they were doubtless intended chiefly for little children, women did not altogether disdain these terracotta toys. A Greek tombstone of the fifth century B.C. has a relief showing a girl, quite grown up, standing with a terracotta doll, exactly like those in this Case, in her hands, while a young slave-girl holds the figure of a duck before her.[77] Humbler but less breakable toys of Roman date are the wooden horse (No. =597=) and rag doll (No. =598=) from Egypt. For the most