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 230 HISTORY OK ART IN PIIU.NICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Even from the little we know about it, it is clear that the necropolis is Phoenician in character. The anthropoid sarco- phagi borrowed by Phoenicia from Egypt are found in it, and side by side with them the smooth stone troughs of Sidon ; while on the only decorated coffin it has yielded we encounter Bes and I star. Neither is there anything Greek among the objects found in the tombs ; as on the Syrian coast, these are alabaster bottles, amulets of Egyptian fayence, terra-cotta statuettes of the naked goddess, clay vases with geometrical decorations, a wooden box with bronze incrustations, fragments of a bronze shield decorated with fights of animals and those of a silver cup with figures upon it. 1 Upon the cup the imitation of Egyptian motives may be FIG. 158. Doorway of a tomb at Amathus. From Cenola. J plainly traced ; as for the shield it recalls objects of the same class found in Assyria. 3 We do not think, however, that this assemblage of tombs dates from a very remote period ; on one of the vases we find an attempt at representing figures, the figures of two people in a chariot ; on the sarcophagus with bas-reliefs and still more on that belonging to the anthropoid class, we can trace the influence of Greek sculpture. The latest of these tombs can hardly be earlier than the fifth or even the beginning of the fourth century. The last type of Cypriot tomb is furnished by those in the neighbourhood of Nea-Paphos, in the south of the island, in a region in which religious- rites preserved their marked Oriental 1 CESNOI.A, Cyprus, pp. 275-281, and plates xviii. xix. and xx. 2 Cyprus, p. 260. 3 Art in Chaldaa and Assyria, vol. ii. pp. 330-347, fig. 225.