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 SCULPTURE AMON^ THE NATIONS IN THE INTERIOR OF SYRIA. 49 was acquired at Marach in 1881 by a French captain of Engineers named Marmier. The person it represents wears no clothing beyond the schenti about his loins. Body, legs, and arms are bare ; a short dagger is thrust into the girdle, and the head is protected by a helmet with a high crest ending in a salient boss over the centre of the forehead. The modeller has dwelt on the processes and the great muscular masses, such as the calf, in a way that recalls Assyria, FIG. 43. Bronte statuette. Actual size. but the type of head has nothing in common with Nineveh. The cheek-bones are high, the nose straight, the chin long and pointed (Fig. 44). The whole profile is peculiar ; it is neither Greek nor Assyrian, but reminds us rather of the figure on the Tyrian stele in the Louvre (Fig. 29). Unfortunately the stone is much worn and has not preserved the same clear-cut lines as the bronze. The positions of the arms in this figure are difficult to explain. VOL. II. H