52 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. The first thing that strikes us when we begin to examine the series of statuettes found at Tharros and Sulcis, is that they all have their prototypes in Cyprus and Syria. Nothing is commoner in Cyprus than the naked goddess with her hands upon her breasts (Fig. 45) ; we have already met her in Sardinia (Fig. 15). It is the same with the robed and seated goddess (Vol. I. Fig. 20), who is encountered with a different head-dress and her arms in another position, in the western island (Fig. 46). In Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Rhodes no type was more popular than that of the woman, priestess or deity, who presses a dove against her breast ; FIG. 45. Cypriot statuette. Terra-cotta. Height 8 inches. Louvre. many examples have been found at Tharros and in other Sardinian cemeteries; they (Vol. I. Fig. 142) are, however, less careful in execution than their eastern congeners (Ib. Fig. 223). We may say the same of another type often found in Sardinia both upon steles (Ib. Figs. 193 and 233) and in terra-cottas (Figs. 48 ductions given in works published either at Turin or in the island itself. We have consequently based our woodcuts on photographs sent to us by M. Ph. Vivanet, the Royal Commissioner charged with the surveillance of both museums and excavations in Sardinia.
