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 78 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. The hair falls on the back in a thick mass ; it is crimpled hori- zontally, like the Egyptian wig ; in front, however, it is divided into four long tresses, after the manner of the lonians. The drapery consists of a tunic and a small purple mantle with a band of light green, the latter fastened on the left shoulder and falling diagonally across the body, as on archaic Greek statues. The lower edge of the robe spreads out and embraces the small square FIG. 69. Terra-cotta statuette. Height 9j inches. Louvre. base. The closed and pointed shoes, also coloured purple, are those known as Persian shoes in Greece." l The type of early Greek archaism may be traced still more clearly in some statuettes already mentioned (Vol. I. Fig. 142). These, too, are figures of standing women draped in a peplos doubled round the waist and a finely plaited tunic. Their waving 1 HiiuziiY. Catalogue, p. 88, and Nos. 206-208.