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 374 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. (Fig. 289). From its triangular form we may divine that its proper place was the breast of some Phoenician priest. The edge is pierced with a number of very small holes, through which it must have been sewn to the dress. 1 In the Assyrian re- liefs we find more than one example of ornament like this. The motives, too, are familiar. The border is the cable borrowed from Assyria by Phoenicia (Vol. I. Fig. 76), while the field is occupied by a palmette and by those combats of real and factitious animals of which Phoenician decorators made such frequent use. The figures are beaten out and chiselled, and then finished with the burin ; traces of gilding are still to be recognized. Fig. 289. Bronze Pectoral. Height 4! inches. Louvre. 2 A pectoral of quite the same character has been found in Etruria, in a tomb at Caere. It consists, however, of a gold instead of a bronze plate. A diadem of gold, of similar character, was found in the same tomb. 3 It is difficult to say whether the kind of broach (Figs. 290 and 291) found by M. Renan in one of the graveyards of Phoenicia is 1 This object was in the Salt collection, which was formed at Alexandria, and contained things both of Syrian and Egyptian origin. 2 From LONGPRIER, Musee Napoleon ///., plate xxxi. fig. 4. 2 GRIFFI, Monimenti di Care antica, plates i. and ii.