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 136 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. folds were timidly expressed by mere parallel streaks (Fig. 88), but at last they arrived at those fine symmetrical arrangements of which the 'best models have been furnished by Greek taste (Fig. 89). " From all these various elements, in which Hellenism became ever more and more predominant as the years rolled on, was formed what may be called the Cypriot style ; like that of ancient FIG. 89. Fragment of a Cypriot statue. Limestone. Height 24 inches. Louvre. Etruria, it was a branch of Greek archaism. Asiatic traditions naturally had more to say to it than to purely Greek art, and they were preserved from total disappearance by the influence of a national type, which was itself considerably mixed." This type is most apparent in those statues which seem the oldest, but some trace of it is to be found even in statues whose style and execution I% HEUZEY, Catalogue, pp. 131-133.