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DECORATION. 127 building is copied in small (Fig. 59). Its cornice is practically identical with that of the tabernacle at Amrit (Fig. 40) ; we find the same sections in a stone beam surmounting a wall near Saida (Fig. 60), which is certainly not the place for which it was originally made. 1 FIG. 60. Phoenician cornice. From Renan. In one of the tabernacles at Amrlt the cornice proper is crowned by a row of ursei, each with a solar disk upon his head (Fig. 61). This is the richest and amplest entablature to be found upon a Phoenician building, and it is nothing but a varia- tion upon an Egyptian motive. 2 It must have been in frequent FIG. 61. Details of a cornice. From Renan. use in Phoenicia. We find it again in a small object found at Saida, on which is carved a small seated god (Fig. 62). The figure has been almost destroyed by blows with a knife, but the row of asps at the top of the stone may be easily recognized. 1 RENAN, Mission, pp. 507, 508. 2 History of Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 152, Fig. 136.