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 GEMS. 241 passed through a ring attached to the mount. The first of the three examples here given has lost its handle ; nothing remains but the actual setting. The subject is a doe suckling her fawn (Fig. 162). The second has been drawn in such a way that the careful treatment of the insect's body and the fashion of its attachment to the handle may be seen (Fig. 163) ; the third has its FIG. 162. Scarab with part of its mount. From Cesnola. 1 FIG. 163. Scarab. From Cesnola. 2 table turned to us (Fig. 164) ; its subject is Horus in the form of a crowned hawk, with crook and flail. Phoenician and Cypriot stones, some oval and some round, have been dug up still fixed in a ring. The Phoenicians were, perhaps, the first to bring that very convenient way of carrying a seal into general use. From them the Greeks took the fashion and used it to the exclusion of all others. A sardonyx in which the seal of FIG. 164. Scarab. From Cesnola. 3 Abibal, father of Hiram, king of Tyre, has been recognized, must have been set in this way (Fig. i65). 4 The name is carefully, very 1 Cyprus, plate xxvi. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. p. 310. 4 DE LUVNES, Essai surla Numismatique des Satrapies, tide la Phcnirie, pp. 69-70, and plate xiii. fig. i. This is really no more than a conjecture, but it receives no slight confirmation from two things ; the workmanship is very Egyptian, and there is only one Abibal in the list of the Tyrian kings. It may be objected that there VOL. II. I I