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320 HISTORY OF ART IN PIKFNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. holds the lunar disk in both hands and appears to offer it for adoration. One of these steles must date from the very com- mencement of the Phoenician occupation (Fig. 233) ; its base is like a truncated pyramid or one of the towers of a pylon ; the FIG. 232. Stele from Lilybaeum. Corpus, plate 29. pedestal on which the goddess stands and the pavilion under which she is sheltered have the same form, while the whole is crowned with a frieze of ursei. The upper gorge bears a globe
