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 GLASS. 337 flat labels, which must have been sewn upon robes ; they have holes for the stitches, which must have been bored through the paste while still soft. In a very few cases these little plaques have FIG. 257. Glass pendaot. FIG. 258. Plaque with sphinx. figures upon them (Fig. 258), like the rampant sphinx here reproduced. As a rule volutes, beads in strong relief (Figs. 259 to 262) and rosettes of six or eight points (Figs. 263 to 265) form their only decoration. FIGS. 259-262. Glass plaques. The glass objects we have described, seem to be the only ones which may certainly be assigned to the old Phoenician period, to the period when inspiration came rather from the east than the FIGS. 263 265 Glass plaques. west. Antiquity has, indeed, left us things in glass of a different kind. To take the nomenclature of M. Froehner there are the. objects in polychromatic glass imitating the textures of wood (verres VOL. n. x x