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 1 88 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. We may give as an example a bearded person who holds a bird between his hands ; it seems to be an offering (Fig. 127). We can divine the business of all the people figured in the statuettes just described from the attributes given to them by the FIG. 125. Player on the Flute. Limestone. Height 17 inches. Piot Collection. sculptor. Such figures as these are always small ; in no case do they reach the size of life. In the case, however, of the great dignitaries who played the chief parts in the festivals of Idalion, Golgos and Paphos by right