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 28 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. enables us to determine the character of a whole class of reliefs and figures in the round. Such, for example, is the case of a colossal torso found in 1857 at Sarfend, the ancient Sarepta, between Tyre and Sidon ; it has been recognized as a fragment from a royal statue (Fig. 26). 1 The figure is girt about the loins with a short garment, bearing a strong family likeness to the Egyptian schenti, and decorated, like the schenti of many a Pharaoh, with two urai? The chest has its nudity broken by two necklaces, the one FIG. 26. Torso of a royal statue. Grey lava. Height 4 feet 10 inches. Louvre. composed of large pear-shaped drops, the other of balls. To the latter is attached a large disk-and-crescent pendent. This is one of the oldest monuments left us by Phoenicia. It belongs to a period anterior to the first signs of Greek 1 This fragment was found by the Arabs, and by them sold to M. Guillaume Rey, who gave it to the Louvre. It was transported to Saida by M. Key's travelling companion, Dr. Delbet, who found the task no easy one. - See Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. II. Fig. 224.