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 VARIATIONS OK STYLE AND COSTUME. element and one of different origin may be traced. And this element is the archaic art of Greece as it existed towards the end of the seventh century in the islands and colonies on the coast of Asia, itself bearing traces of its half Egyptian, half Asiatic education, combined with a rude, though powerful, originality of its own. We have shown that the influence of Greek archaism FIG. 83. Limestone statue found at Athieno. New York Museum. was felt very early even as far as Phoenicia ; still more, then, must it have made its way in an island peopled in great part by a Greek race." * In several heads of limestone and painted terra-cotta ve find the beginnings of the Greek school in Cyprus. The themes are 1 HEUZEV, Catalogue, pp. 130-131.