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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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3 and 4 come from Salamis in Cyprus, where they were found by M.Alexandre Di Cesnola,[792] the brother of the General.No.3 represents a robed figure holding two nondescript animals by the hind legs; the creatures writhe in his grasp, and turn their heads towards him, as though wishing to bite.

The remainder of the field is filed with detached objects, scattered at random--two human forms, a griffin, two heads of oxen, a bird, two balls, three crosses, a sceptre, &c.

The forms are, all of them, very rudely traced.No.

4 resembles in general character No.

3, but is even ruder.


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