Since the 7th inst. I have been able to gather here more than 200 terra-cotta idols of Hera, more or less broken, in the form of a woman or in that of a cow.[187] Most of the former have ornaments painted in bright red on a dead ground of light red, two breasts in relief, below which protrudes on each side a long horn, so that both horns together form a half-circle; and, as I have said regarding the idols in Tiryns, they must either be intended to represent cow-horns, or the symbolic horns of the crescent moon, or both at once. The head of those idols is of a very compressed shape, and usually covered by a large "polos." The lower part is in the form of a gradually widening tube. It deserves particular attention that a terra-cotta idol of exactly the same form was found in the aforesaid tomb in Ialysus, and is now in the British Museum. [Illustration: No. 111. Terra-cotta Idol. (4 M.) Actual size.] But there were also found idols of this sort with a very low _polos_ (No. 111), and perhaps a dozen idols without any horns; the whole upper part of the body, as far as the neck, being in the form of a disk (Nos. 90, 91, 92, 93, 112[188]); the head is uncovered, and the hair is often indicated by a long tress on the back. There have also been found some idols with a bird's head, covered or uncovered, large eyes, no horns, but two well-indicated hands joined on the breast (Nos. 99, 100, 101[189]). I also found the terra-cotta figure (six inches high) of an old and ugly woman, probably a priestess (No. 113); the features are certainly neither Assyrian nor Egyptian; the hands are broken off, but they have evidently been protruding; the figure has a very rude ornamentation of black lines on a dead ground of strong red; the waist is ornamented with a number of zigzag lines, which may possibly represent fire. The fragment (No. 110) seems, from its attitude, to have represented a rider on horseback. [Illustration: No. 122. Terra-cotta Idol. Actual size.] [Illustration: No. 123. Terra-cotta Figure. (1 M.) Size 5:6.] [Sidenote: HERA-IDOLS IN TERRA-COTTA.] Of idols in the form of a cow hundreds were found, but all are more or less broken. It is very remarkable that in the sepulchre at Ialysus there were also found two such cow-idols, which are now in the British Museum; they are very well preserved, and have the same painted ornamentation as the cow-idols from Mycenæ. [Illustration: No. 114-119. Terra-cotta Figures of Animals. No. 114. (6 M.) No. 115. (3 M.) No. 116. (4 M.) No. 117. (7 M.) No. 118. (5½ M.) No. 119. (6 M.) ] [Illustration: No. 120. Objects in Bronze, Lead, and Iron. Size, 1:3.] [Sidenote: IMPLEMENTS OF BRONZE AND STONE.]