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 i2o HISTORY OF ART IN PIKENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. sometimes still more marked, as, for instance, in the ornament from a funerary stele which we reproduce in Fig. 54. The lower part of this monument has disappeared, but judging from the shape of its crown it must have seemed poor and meagre in comparison with the tablet and the two lions crowded on to it. 1 ''; "jt A v Y FIG. 54. Ornament from a Cypriot stele. Louvre. 1 The Cypriot capitals had, then, plenty of variety. There are one or two among them in which we seem to recognize a first sketch for the Corinthian capital. We have its skeleton, so to speak, in a fragment from Athieno which is only known to us in a mediocre FIG. 55. Cypriot capital. From Cecealdi.- drawing here reproduced (Fig. 55). Its principal member is a calatkos, as the Greeks called it, a mass in the form of an inverted 1 Extreme width, 38 inches. 2 Monuments antiques tic Cpre, p. 43 The longest side of the abacus measures 23 inches.