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 246 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Phoenician workmen. If a Jew was ready to use a seal engraved with Egyptian symbols, he would commission it from some Tyrian or Sidonian lapidary, established, perhaps, in a Jewish city. In all artistic matters the Jews were dependent on their neighbours. In Fig. 174 we see a winged, hawk-headed sphinx crowned with the pschent ; beneath it we read : In remembrance of Hoschea. In Fig. 175 a divinity kneels upon a lotus flower, the head being that of Hathor with her horns and disk. The inscription may be thus interpreted : To Abion, servant of Ouzzion. FIG. 174. Scarab in the British Museum. 1 FIG. 175. Intaglio.' On some stones imitation of Egypt is combined with that of Assyria, in a convex carnelion from Amrit for instance (Fig. 1 76). We there see a priest in Assyrian dress, but with the pschent on his head, sacrificing a female quadruped, perhaps a doe ; her four young ones appear beneath her. In the upper part of the field the sun, the moon, the winged disk and an unknown prqper name : Shakab. In other cases the lapidary has copied subjects from the cones and cylinders of western Asia. On a flat carnelion scarab (Fig. 177) we find a priest, crowned with the Assyrian tiara and with a FIG. 176. Intaglio. 3 FIG. 177. Scarab. 4 sceptre in his hand standing before a flaming altar. Over his head there is a crescent, and beneath the platform on which he stands, in a kind of exergue, the legend To Abied, son of Zaker. We encounter almost the same theme on a scarabseoid inscribed, To Palziar-Shemesh (Fig. 178). The priest's head-dress, however, is different. Instead of the tiara he wears a kind of scarf wrapped 1 From DE Vocui, Melanges, plate vii. 8 Ibid, plate v. 2 Ibid. Ibid.