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 MATERIALS AND PROCESSES. age of the statuette. In later times, when the use of the file was better understood, they would have been removed after the metal was taken from the mould. The whole character of the work is in thorough accord with the suggestion of inexperience conveyed by their presence. Some bronzes of an execution already more advanced belong still to the ancient period, to the time before Phoenicia began to FlG. I. Bronze statuette. Louvre. Height 8| inches. look elsewhere than to the East for inspiration. We may name as an instance the statuette of a player upon the lyre in M. Peretie's collection, which has been photographed by M. Clermont Ganneau (Fig. 2). Finally, we may refer to the metal ornament already figured (Vol. I. Fig 26), which represents a bust of