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 272 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. of them were found at Cameiros, in Rhodes. 1 Our Fig. 208 will show how these objects were shaped. The neck of the bottle took the place of the helmet's crest ; the nose-piece was left out, the cheek-pieces (irapwU, irapayvadiSes) were lowered, while the pre- sence of a kind of salient brow-piece (^TM-JTOV) formed a slight modification upon the original shape of such a casque. The oldest of these vases seem to date from the same period as the archaic vases with black figures heightened with purple, but the shape did not lose its vogue until very much later. 2 If one motive should be considered more thoroughly Greek than another it is assuredly this imitation of the bronze helmet which was one of the items of the national military costume. And yet a little object belongs to the series which was certainly made neither in Greece nor by a Greek workman. It also is a small aryballos FIG. 208.- Bottle in glazed earthenware. Louvre. 8 in the form of a helmeted head, but it is not of the common clay ; it is made of the white, sandy earth glazed generally with blue, which is known as Egyptian faience (Fig. 208). " The enamel has now disappeared, an accident which is common enough away from the dry soil of Egypt, but a few touches of blue, as well as a little black and yellow on some of the details, may still be traced. These are chiefly on the eyeballs and eyebrows, and on the decoration of the helmet. Nearly all these latter details are moreover outlined with a point, skilfully handled. This part of 1 Some of those in the Louvre formed part of the Campana collection ; it is by no means unlikely, therefore, that they were found either at Caere or in some other Etruscan cemetery. 2 HEUZEY, Sur un petit vase, 6^., pp. 145-6. 3 From HEUZEY, Les figurines antiques du Louvre, plate vii.