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 FIGURES OF DEITIES. 1 1 with a work ; an instance in point is given by the bronze reproduced in Fig. 26 of our first volume. In that we are inclined to see a Phoenician pasticcio rather than an original by some Memphite metal- worker, because in some of the details, especially the head-dress, one can perceive changes from the stereotyped forms of Egypt ; the horns about the disk do not show quite the same lines as those on authentic images of Isis-Hathor. 1 They are heavier and more directly copied from the crescent moon. In other monuments betraying a strong Egyptian influence, a Phoenician origin is attested, not, as in this bronze, by slight changes of treatment, but by the mixture of elements taken from Egypt with motives borrowed elsewhere. Look, for instance, at the stele of Jehaw-Melek (Vol. I. Fig. 23) ; the local goddess, the " mistress of Gebal," is there represented with the features and sceptre of an I sis, while the king who does homage to her wears the costume and tiara of a Persian prince. Finally, there are some monu- ments in which the sculptor seems rather to have been inspired by an Assyrian model. A stele found at Nahr Abrach, near Amrit, that is to say in the continental domain of the Arvadites, conveys this 1 See Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. I. Fig. 40, and Vol. II. Fig. 316, and ante, Fig. 6.
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