4i 8 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. occurs ; it is held above his head by one of the soldiers who assault the fortress on the left. The shield itself has suffered much ; it has lost, for instance, the larger part of its very salient boss ; but this our draughtsman has been able to restore with the help of the engraving on the patera. The motives of the decoration are all familiar. FIG. 360. Buckler. Diameter 33^ inches. Louvre. Lions and bulls were favourite subjects with the ornamental armourer. We have already encountered them on an Assyrian shield in the British Museum ; we find them also in Etruria, upon fragments which seem, from their style, to be of Phoenician origin. Thus, in the hall of Etruscan bronzes at the British Museum, we find two large bucklers, the provenance of which, though not ac- curately known, was most likely Tuscany. Of one the ornament
