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 ANIMALS. 197 however, the imitation of an Egyptian model, such as one of those studio patterns with which the ruins of Tanis have enriched the Boulak Museum. 1 FIG. 131. Lion. L'meatone. New York Museum. There were no lions in the mountains of Cyprus, but it was not only for want of familiarity with their appearance that the Cypriot sculptor rendered them so inadequately. He failed just as com- pletely with the domestic animals among which he lived. He FIG. 132. Head of a lioness. New York Museum. never seems to have looked at them with any real curiosity. Perhaps his best works in the genre are the cattle in the relief of Hercules and the herds of Geryon (Fig. in); there the i See Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. II. Figs. 261 and 262.