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 PHOENICIAN CERAMICS. 271 as the common glass beads exported to the same part of the world have with the tribes of modern Africa. Such born traders as the Phoenicians must soon have determined to acclimatize a profitable industry like this in their own country. In studying their sculpture we have already recognized that certain figurines in enamelled earth appear to be the work of a Phoenician rather than of an Egyptian hand. 1 We may say the same of the scarabs found in the Sardinian graveyards, 2 and we now come to the same conclusion in the case of these vases. Of some, no doubt, it is difficult to guess the true provenance, of the bowl (Fig. 207) found by M. di Cesnola in a tomb at Dali 3 for instance. Its inside is covered with a green enamel, on which plumes of papyrus are made out in black ; the figure as a whole is one often encountered in Egyptian art. FlG. 207. Bowl in Egyptian faience. Any doubt we may feel in presence of this example finds no counterpart when we turn to other specimens in which both material and process are the same, but where the mixed forms peculiar to Phoenician art are more conspicuous ; such are those vases in which purely Egyptian motives are blended with others which betray a knowledge of Greek models on the part of the artist. In the collections of the Louvre and British Museum there is a whole series of Greek aryballoi, to each of which the potter has given the fantastic shape of a head covered with a helmet. 4 Most 1 See above, p. 5. z Mid. p. 253. 3 CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 101. 4 HEUZEV, Sur un petit vase en forme de fete casquee portant une inscription hicro- glyphique (Gazette archeologique, 1880, pp. 145-146, and plate xx.). See also Figurines de terre cuite du Musee du Lour re, plate vii. fig. 2.