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 48 HISTORY OF ART IN PIICENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. the latter in the long and ample garment which never ceased to be in fashion in western Asia from the time of the first Chaldee empire onward, we shall obtain a whole that may be compared to the personage who stands before an altar on so many cylinders from the second empire. 1 The arrangement of the hair and the long upright neck are strong points of likeness. P'lG. 42. Fainted sculpture from Edessa, side viev. This fragment from Edessa must always be somewhat of a puzzle until some more nearly complete iconic statue of the kind is discovered. An extremely well preserved bronze statuette which comes from the ancient Commagene has many obvious features in common with the stele of Amrit (Fig. 7), the. stele of Moab (Fig. 40) and the torso from Sarepta (Fig. 26). The statuette in question (Fig. 43) 1 Art in Chaldcca and Assyria, Vol. II. Fig. 154.