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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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The capitals which crown the pillars recall those of the Ionic order, but the abacus is much more developed.

A winged globe, stretching from pillar to pillar, roofs in this sort of little chapel; each is the shrine of a divinity.
One of the divinities is that nude goddess, clasping her breasts with her hands, whom we have already met with in the Phoenician world more than once; the other is a bearded personage, whose face is framed in by his abundant hair; he appears to be dressed in a close-fitting garment, made of a material folded in narrow plaits.

We do not know what name to give the personage.

Each of the figures is repeated twice.

The rest of the field is occupied by four distinct subjects, two of them being scenes of adoration.


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