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 PHOENICIAN SCULPTURE IN THE WEST. 53 and 67,) namely that of the veiled female who presses a large disk against her bosom with both hands. 1 Is the person here figured to be recognized as Astarte with the lunar disk ? The notion derives some support from the fact that she occurs on steles of a votive character and that, consequently, she must be a goddess. On the other hand there is a terra- cotta in the Louvre, supposed to have been found at Tripoli in Syria, in which the disk is painted red and is thought to represent a tambourine, the figure beating it with both hands. 2 But what- ever the disk may mean, the fact remains that it supplies an additional link between the art of Phoenicia and that of Sardinia. FIG. 46. Sardinian statuette. Terra-colta. Height 6| inches. British Museum. FIG. 47. Sardinian statuette. Terra-cotta. Height 7| inches. British Museum. In a beautiful little terra-cotta from Tharros we encounter a type which has so far been found nowhere out of Sardinia (Fig. 49). In its long robe and Egyptian head-dress it has much the appearance of a mummy, and reminds us of the funerary statuettes of Egypt ; but it is distinguished from the latter by two characteristic features ; the arms instead of being folded on the chest, hang down at the sides, and the feet are visible. The 1 See CRESPI, Catalogo, pp. 71 and 148, plate ii. fig. 18. 2 HEUZEY, Catalogue, No. 195 and plate vL fig. 4. DE LONGPERIER, Mus'ee Napoleon ///., plate xxv. fig. 2 ; also see below, p. 54.