The sheep carried on the back of a shepherd, brought from Cyprus and now in the museum of New York, is a very ill-shaped sheep, and the doves so often represented are very poor doves.[720] They are just recognisable, and that is the most that can be said for them.

A dog in stone,[721] found at Athienau, is somewhat better, equally the dogs of the Egyptians and Assyrians.

On the other hand, the only fully modelled horses that have been found are utterly childish and absurd.[722] The reliefs of the Phoenicians are very superior to their statues.

They vary in their character from almost the lowest kind of relief to the highest.

On dresses, on shields, on slabs, and on some sarcophagi it is much higher than is usual even in Greece.