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SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF PHOENICIAN SCULPTURE. 73 is dressed in a long robe doubled over just below the waist. With his right hand, on the wrist of which he wears a spiral bracelet, he presses a patera against his left side ; his left hand hangs down by his side." l Finally we must put the figure of a god seated between two rams, in whom we have recognized Baal-Hammon, in the FIG. 66. Terra-cotta statuette in the Louvre. Height 12 inches. same group (Vol. I. Fig. i4o). 2 The statuettes which betray Assyrian influence are far from primitive in character ; they must have been preceded by rougher works now all lost ; they show great technical skill on the part of their makers ; " the 1 HEUZEY, Catalogue, pp. 68-69 (No. 191). l Ibid. p. 65. VOL. II. L