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 140 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. struck. In his enumeration of the Persian king's auxiliaries he says : " The Cypriots. furnished a hundred and fifty ships ; this is how they were dressed. The kings wore mitres on their heads ; the private men wore tunics ; in other ways they resembled the Greeks." l These mitres varied greatly in shape. We have already noticed the high-pointed bonnet, like the Assyrian helmet (Fig. 77 and Vol. I. Plate I. Fig. 2), and we have shown how it was some- times so depressed at the apex as to be little more than a skull cap (Vol. I. Plate I. Fig. 2) ; we have also noticed head-dresses FIG. 93. Limestone head. Height 22 inches. Louvre, like the klaft (Figs. 78 and 79) and the pschent (Figs. 80, 81, and 82) ; there are others besides, more rare and less curious. One of the most singular is borne by a head larger than life, in the Louvre (Fig. 93.) In this fragment the free treatment of hair and beard is that of an art neither Oriental nor oppressed by the conventions of Greek archaism ; the modelling of the face too points to a comparatively late date ; but our attention 'is arrested by a hat strongly resembling one of those furred caps with up- turned brims which we so often encounter in renaissance pictures 1 HERODOTUS, VII. 90.