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 1 8 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. TraraUot in other Phoenician monuments which, being of a more solid material, have offered a better resistance to the centuries. Herodotus speaks of a pygmy ; now by a pygmy the Greeks understood a dwarf with a large head, with protruding belly and buttocks, and knotty limbs ; a person answering in some degree to this description appears on certain silver coins of Phoenician origin, FIG. 15. Terra-cotta figure from Tharros. Height 13 inches. British Museum. on which we see a great ship with a deformed dwarf on its prow, whose head seems to be that of an animal (Fig. 16). Many Egyptian statuettes of glazed faience have preserved for us the type known to Egyptologists as the Embryonic Ptah (Fig. i;). 1 1 See DR. PARROT'S curious note Sur Forigine tfune des formes du dieu Phtah (Reciieil de Travaux relatifs CL la Philologie et a FArcheologie 'egyptiennes et assyriennes,