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 300 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. decorator has expended his skill. The dog's coat is dark in colour, with a white head and white spots ; its form has been studied from nature, but it "is ungraceful arid heavy. Birds, running stags, bulls, goats, and heifers form a double frieze round a large amphora figured by Cesnola (Fig. 240). FIG. 236. Amphora. 1 The imitation of Oriental art may be traced on this vase, in the lotus flowers by which the smaller frieze is divided into compartments. We shall find lotus and papyrus employed in the same fashion on metal cups. In the series we are now studying FIG. 237. CEnochoe. New York Museum. Oriental influence is betrayed by other things than this. When the Cypriot artist wished to introduce animals into his work, he looked at those about him and reproduced them sometimes with considerable success. But whenever he wished to make use of 1 From CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 512.