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 302 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. idea is the same, and, what is still more significant, the action of head and neck are identical, but here the head is far less skilfully drawn, while the body is over-charged by the ornaments plastered upon it. Our imagination is ready to credit the Assyrian Pegasus FIG. 239. Vase from Ormidia. New York Museum. with life ; it is not real, but it looks possible. We cannot say as much of the composite beast of Cyprus. A cartouch or label between two rosettes was a favourite motive with the Cypriot decorator. We find it repeated on a vase which shows on its principal face two quadrupeds rampant on either side of a structure to which it is hard to give any name (Fig. 242). Should we call it a column, a stele, or a palmette ? IK HT FIG. 240. Double frieze of animals. From Cesnola. It is composed of a rapidly tapering shaft crowned by large falling volutes, above which again appears the triangle between reversed volutes we have noticed so often on the limestone steles (see Vol. I., Figs. 52 and 53). Side by side with these things