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 78 HISTORY OTF ART IN PIKKNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. brow of I sis. So, too, the Phoenicians adapted the form of the child Ptah to their Cabeiri and Pygmies (Fig. 27). It was perhaps a sense of their shortcomings as plastic artists that prevented the Phoenicians from placing statues of their great v^/ 4^;^J ^'m fe +W? /,*/&,.,,-. Jsf'S, FK;. 26 From a bron/e in M. I'erctie's collection. Ileiglit, l6| inches. gods in their principal temples. It seems certain, from the often quoted text of Herodotus, 1 that the temple of Baal-Melkart, at Tyre, inclosed no statute of the god ; he was represented only by 1 HERODOTUS, ii. 44.