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 398 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. are skilfully worked and the decorative parts are not without grace and variety. At several points in the Phoenician world ivory plaques have been found which seem to have belonged to objects of this kind. Such, for example, is the tablet discovered at Carthage, by Mr. Salomon Reinach, in the excavations he made in 1884 between Byrsa and the harbour (Fig. 341). It was found at a depth of fc" FIG. 338. Ivory case. Height 3 T 9 inches. twelve feet, and the heaviness of its workmanship suggests that it belongs to a period before Greek art had begun to have much influence. From Cameiros, too, have come some fragments of ivory in which both types and workmanship have the same Phoenician character. The specimen we reproduce belongs to the Louvre (Fig. 342). The British Museum, however, is richer in these things. It possesses a number of little slabs in which