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 72 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. " When it was intact, this four-horse chariot must have contained four warriors, but the two front figures, the master of the chariot and his driver, have been broken away ; one of the armed servants at the back has also had his head broken off, so that there is only one complete figure left. Type of head and costume are almost wholly Assyrian ; aquiline nose, long, crimped beard, conical helmet with fixed chin-strap from under which two long tresses appear ; the dagger passed through the girdle, the tasselled harness, the arrangement of the car with the lion protecting its rear, all remind us of the war-chariots sculptured on the walls of Assyrian palaces." l We find the same peculiarities in a little flat-backed figure which may, perhaps, have been intended to form part of one of these FIG. 65. Terra-cotta statuette, Louvre. Height 4 inches. chariot groups (Fig. 65). " This little personage is bearded ; his countenance is what we call Semitic in type. He wears a kind of conical hat or turban .... his dress consists of two garments one over the other, both open at the chest and with wide borders. Open robes analogous, like this, to the modern Syrian Aba, are reserved on the Ninevite reliefs to certain Asiatic populations which were subject to the Assyrian kings." 2 The same features, less carefully made out, are to be recognized in another statuette belonging to the Louvre, in which we see a standing figure, bearded and wearing a conical hat (Fig. 66). " He 1 HEUZEY, Catalogue, pp. 66-67 (No. 187). 2 Ibid. pp. 67-68 (No. 189).