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 THE TEMPLES OF SICILY AND CARTHAGE. without wings. The same arrangement is found in many other steles, but with variations and differences in execution which prove that all these monuments by no means belong to the same century. 1 In any case this worship and the divine type con- secrated by it had not fallen into disuse even at the time of the Roman conquest ; this is proved by several steles which, by their chronological order, would come at the end of the series. The columns which enframe the pavilion are classic, but in one stele at least motives entirely Phoenician are mingled with the distinc- tive features of the Ionic order (Fig. 193). The winged globe occupies the centre of a cornice with a purely Greek profile, but FIG. 233. Stele from Sulcis. Height 28 inches. From Crespi. above that cornice again appears a row of ureei. In another stele from the same place (Fig. 194), we are inclined to see a relic of the worship of Baal-Hammon. High in the field we see a disk embraced by a crescent ; lower down, an animal walking to the left. This animal certainly looks more like a sheep than a ram ; it has no horns, but their absence may be explained by the general roughness of the work. Nothing has been found that we can recognize as ruins of the buildings in which these gods were adored. The temple of CRESPI, Catalogo, plate i. Nos. i, 8, 10, and n. VOL. I. T T