Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . f the steatopygous type, unfortu-nately much damaged (Fig. 109a). It is of the same clay as the red onwhite ware (A3/3), and shows the same style of decoration. The whole figure Zerelia, Figurines 163 was covered with a white slip, on which patterns were painted in red : thosestill preserved on the thigh represent chevrons. In VI was found a rude female figure (Fig. 109/) similar to an examplefrom Sesklo, A-S, PI. i-^. i. To VII belongs a column

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Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . f the steatopygous type, unfortu-nately much damaged (Fig. 109a). It is of the same clay as the red onwhite ware (A3/3), and shows the same style of decoration. The whole figure Zerelia, Figurines 163 was covered with a white slip, on which patterns were painted in red : thosestill preserved on the thigh represent chevrons. In VI was found a rude female figure (Fig. 109/) similar to an examplefrom Sesklo, A-S, PI. i-^. i. To VII belongs a columnar statuette (Fig. 109^), which was paintedin the red on white style, a shapeless torso (of. Fig. 109^) with hole inthe top for the insertion of a head like the examples from Rakhmani(Fig. 25, p. 49) and Dhimini, A-S, PI. 36. 1-3, and the seated male figureshown in Fig. 110. This remarkable statuette, which is •12 m. high, ispractically perfect, and represents a seated ithyphallic man with his handson his knees and looking upwards. The feet are flat and pointed, the noseand ears are prominent, and the top of the head runs up into an odd peak.. Fl<;. no. Zerelia; terra-colta figurine (scale about i : 2). The figure is hand-made, and though the technique is rude, its executionis vigorous and decided. This is the first prehistoric figure of the kindfound in Greece and its phallic character stamps it as the work of a peoplealien to that which made the Mycenean terra-cotta figurines. To T 11 belongs one figurine (Fig. 109//) with rudimentary arms andalmost exactly like the .shapeless figures from Dhimini, A-Zi, PI. 35. 6, 7. In addition we found on the slopes of the mound five other figurinesof which the stratification is uncertain: one is like Fig. 109 ^ two likeFig. 109 /•, one like Fig. 109 //, and the other (Fig. 109 /) is a small headsimilar to a head from Sesklo, A ^:!, Il. 34. 8. The stratification of these figurine.s, as far as it goes, agrees with theresults obtaine