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 416 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Onasilos, and the town of Idalion. 1 One of the most curious pieces is a cheek-piece from a helmet, with a griffin figured upon it ; the animal has one fore-paw raised and laid upon a large FIG. 357. Cheek-piece, from a bronze helmet. Length 6-J- inches. French National Library. flower (Fig. 357). A similar flower appears between two lances on the narrow part of the fragment. Just behind the griffin there FIG. 358. Double axe. Extreme width 6 inches. French National Library. is an inscription of four Phoenician letters. In the same group of objects there is the knob of a mace or head of a chariot pole 1 DE LUYNES, Numismatique et inscriptions Cypriotes, pp. 39 and 49.