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 176 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Side by side with these figures in which exotic motives persist, a number of others show the Cypriot Hercules tending ever more and more to become confounded with that of Greece ; but even in the statues whose style is most advanced it is rare to find one which does not betray its oriental origin in some little detail. Take, for instance, the Louvre statuette here reproduced (Fig. 114). It has the right arm and the lower part of the legs broken off, but all the rest is in excellent condition. The left hand leans upon a club ; FIG. 114. Limestone statue of Hercules. Height 17 inches. Louvre. the lion's skin covers head and shoulders like a hood ; the paws are tied into a knot on the chest. In all this there is nothing that cannot be found on many another Hercules of different origin, but it is not so with the curiously shaped upper garment, widely open in front, which is held in place over the plaited tunic by a tight girdle. Here the god is beardless and quite juvenile in appearance ; he is far enough removed from the Amathus giant with his great