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 204 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. some tutelary deity. All this points to a set of ideas analogous to those we described in our study of the Egyptian tomb and of the JM<;. 139. Alalm^tron. Louvre. Actual size. statuettes which were deposited in it in thousands; 1 but in Phoenicia these ideas were neither so precise nor so profoundly 1 Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. i. chap. iii.