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 THE TEMPLE IN PHOENICIA. 167 care, and in their right hands they hold a votive offering a patera, a dove, a flower, the branch of a tree, or some other object of the same nature (Figs. 195 and 196). Several in- scriptions found in Cyprus give us the formula used at the FIG. 196. Limestone statue from Cyprus. Height 27^ inches. In the National Library, Paris. consecration of these figures. 1 It has been suggested 'that perhaps the statues represent the deities to whom these gifts were offered, rather than the worshipper ; but all doubt appears 1 Corpus Inscriplionum Semiticarum, pars i. Nos. n, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94.