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 342 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. chisel and hammer, working from the reverse side ; afterwards he adds definition with the help of the burin. Chasing and repousst work are thus commingled. But if you turn the plate over you will see traces of neither ; for the cup is double, the reverse of the decorated bottom is hidden and protected by a second disk of metal. FIG. 267. Bowl from Pneneste. In the Kircher Collection. In some bowls the outer zone of decoration contains an attempt to figure a scene of real or ideal life, analogous to those painted by the decorators of Greece on their vases ; in others we see nothing but those empty forms borrowed right and left, but especially from Assyria and Egypt, of which we have already spoken. We must not think, however, that two systems of decoration are here represented, and that one ex-