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 208 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS. DEPENDENCIES. place was taken by a simple arabesque. With this difference the ornamental frame runs round all the reliefs. Its details, taken is separately, are in sufficiently good taste, but as a whole it excessive and overcharged. The whole thing is a little barbaric, in the sense attached to that term by the Greeks.