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 284 HISTORY OK ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. offerings for cures wrought by the divinity. Among them occur arms and hands, legs, feet, and the reproductive organs. 1 FIGS. 205, 206. Elevation of a cone found at Athieno and section of its lower part. The sacred cone did not have this inclosure all to itself. There were numerous pedestals, each supporting a statue. Most 1 The Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities, a Descriptive and Pictorial Atlas (3 vols. folio, James Osgoocl, Boston, 1884), vol. i. plates xxvii., xviii. and xix. We have borrowed freely from this fine work, in which all the monuments brought from Cyprus by General di Cesnola are reproduced with a care and fidelity which does honour to the American publisher. We can never thank Messrs. Cesnola and Osgood too much for the liberality with which they put their plates at our service, long before they were published. The work comprises 450 plates, a third of which