Among all the objects discovered at Hissarlik, none have been more discussed than the vases and clay images in which Dr. Schliemann saw a representation of an owl-headed Athena. What Dr. Schliemann took for an owl's head, however, is really a rude attempt to imitate the human face, and two breasts are frequently moulded in the clay below it. In many examples the human countenance is unmistakable, and in most of the others the representation is less rude than in the case of the small marble statues of Apollo (?) found in the Greek islands, or even of the early Hellenic vases where the men seem furnished with the beaks of birds. But we now know that these curious vases are not peculiar to the Troad. Specimens of them have also been met with in Cyprus, and in these we can trace the development of the owl-like head into the more perfect portraiture of the human face.[27] In conservative Cyprus there was not that break with the past which occurred in other portions of the Greek world. Cyprus, in fact, lay midway between Greece and Phoenicia, and was shared to the last between an Aryan and a Semitic population. The Phoenician element in the island was strong, if not preponderant; Paphos was a chief seat of the worship of the Phoenician Astarte, and the Phoenician Kitium, the Chittim of the Hebrews, took first rank among the Cyprian towns. The antiquities brought to light by General di Cesnola are of all ages and all styles--prehistoric and classical, Phoenician and Hellenic, Assyrian and Egyptian--and the various styles are combined together in the catholic spirit that characterized Phoenician art.