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Excerpt from A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rude figure of a warrior, with short, slightly tapering cylindrical body and conical base; somewhat in the style of No. 259. Top of helmet broken away; the remaining portion colored, and the nose and ear-pieces indicated, with red color. Right arm raised as in act to hurl a weapon, but the hand is too much defaced to show any trace of a weapon there. On the left arm, a round shield, or targe, held almost horizontal, ornamented with brown lines crossing at the centre, which alternate with shorter red rays. Eyes and beard indicated in brown; bands of brown and red on the right arm; brown band at junction of body with base; on the base, alternate stripes of brown and red from top to bottom. Surface somewhat defaced. Broken across the body, and reset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.