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 SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF PHCENICIAN SCULPTURE. 77 names of polos and kidaris, to indicate certain members of the Hellenic pantheon ; * some other figures of the same kind and from the same place have nothing on their heads but a narrow cap with a veil wrapped about it, making them into huge balls. 2 " The other series begins with standing female figures, the arms hanging down at the sides, the hands closed, the feet placed one before the other (Fig. 69). These are moulded in two pieces and FIG. 68. Terra-cotta statuette. Height 7f inches. Louvre. well worked on both faces. The general contours are almost iden- tical with those of the Egyptian sepulchral statuettes, but the de- tails of the modelling are very different and their art more advanced, 1 This same head-dress may be recognized on a relief figured above (Fig. 9), where it is worn by prisoners on their way to Assyria, probably from the Persian Gulf. 2 HEUZEY, Catalogue, No. 203-205.