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 286 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES countries. Some flagons turned on this model are among the best established and most original of Cypriot industrial products (Fig. 221). A carefully modelled neck and handle are inserted FIG. 218. ^Bottle in the Piot collection. into a body which is not without grace in spite of the large circle it describes. In the example here figured we may see an orna- mental motive which has never been met with, so far as I know, outside of Cyprus ; I mean those large concentric circles described FIG. 219. CEnochoe in the Piot collection. on the sides of the bottle and parallel to its major axis. In the great majority of cases when people have made use of rings to decorate their pottery, those rings have been horizontal, and so