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 368 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. The Phoenician workman must have had pattern-books from which these designs were taken. When he received an order for any vessel of bronze or silver he would determine upon the shape, and then choose from his stock of designs such subjects as might FIG. 285. Silver cup. From Cesnola. 1 seem to him well fitted for the work in hand and for the com- missioning client. On one vessel he would put a hunt, on another a religious function, a scene from pastoral life, or a military promenade. All these things were composed with a certain FIG. 286. Alabastron in rock crystal. From Cesnola. 2 amount of taste and variety ; only their elements were borrowed. Neither in Assyria nor in the Mediterranean basin have two cups been found which could be said to be copied one from 1 Cyprus, plate xxi. 2 Ibid. p. 325,