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SCULPTURE. 165 example, where we studied the curious mingling of parts in low relief opposed to others worked in the round. 1 The head is much

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FIG. 115. Stone ram. Left side. Journal, 1882, Plate XX. injured ; the horns and the tail the flat broad tail of the sheep of the country are the only distinct features that serve to identify ^^SrW// ^iiiS^'.f/A.'--- X FIG. 116. Ram carved on stone. Right side. RAMSAY, Journal, 1882. the kind of animal to which they belonged. Thus, we find here the same conventionalism, the same compromise, the same want of power in setting free the living figure from the mass of stone where it lies imprisoned, which characterize Cappadocian art (Figs. 115, 1 1 6). 1 Hist, of Art, torn. iv. pp. 548, 611, 581.