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 382 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. amphora in crystal, &C. 1 The effect of such jewels may be imagined from that of the necklace found by M. Renan on the coast of Syria, and reproduced at the foot of our Plate X. FIG. 310. Fragment of a torso in limestone. New York Museum. Nowhere is the skill of the Phoenician jeweller more clearly shown than in a necklace from Curium consisting of a plaited FIG. 311. Gold necklace. From Cesnola. 2 gold cable (Fig. 311). At one end a lion's head is mounted upon a cylinder covered with a fine bead ornament. The animal holds 1 CESNOLA, Cyprus. These beads of carnelion and rock crystal are also found often enough in the Sardinian tombs (CRESPI, Catalogo, p. 41). A necklace of white stones and carnelions, from a tomb on the Syrian coast, belongs to the collection of M. de Vogue. 2 Cvprus, plate xxv.