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 294 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Look, for instance, at this elaborate vase from a tomb at Ormidia (Fig. 23 1). 1 The decoration is partly geometrical, partly composed of vegetable forms. The neck is covered with lozenges of various sizes, with rosettes, and with vertical bands dividing it into panels. The body of the vessel is surrounded by several horizontal belts, among which appears the knop-and-flower garland. The same mixture of linear ornament with vegetable forms occurs on another vase, a sort of bowl or crater (Fig. 232). We have reproduced its chief motive in colour, so as to give a clear idea of the tints used by the Cypriot potter (Plate III., Fig. i). The motive in question is a wide belt of ornament, divided FIG. 228. Woman-headed vase. From Cesnola.- vertically, like so many Egyptian friezes, into several compart- ments ; each compartment incloses a lotus flower. The same flower, still more conventionalized, affords a centre for the fanciful motive in the decoration of a cup in the Albert Barre Collection (Fig. 233). A white rosette is pinned like a " favour " on to the base of the calix, which rises from two large spirals like those of the sacred tree of Assyria. Here, too, we come upon a new element ; on either side of the flower appears an aquatic bird, either swan, goose, or duck. These 1 For an. account of the cemetery near this village and of the vases found in it, see CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 181, and FR. LENORMANT, Gazette archeologique, 1883, p. 97. 2 Cyprus, plate xlii.