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HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA ANH ITS DEPENDENCIES. Other indications point to the same conclusion. One of the anthropoid sarcophagi in the Louvre, that which comes from Byblos, is marked with a Phd-nician letter on its shoulder; still more decisive is the existence of the Tortosa coffin in brown lava, that is to say, in the material of the country : we may draw the same conclusion from the fragmentary head in terra-cotta figured on this page (Fig. 130). In its general appearance the influence of archaic Greek art can be clearly traced, but some of its details are quite local in character, especially the corkscrew curl at the side of the cheek, the earrings in the shape of a broken circle, FIG. 130. Fragment of an anthropoid sarcophagus in terra-cotta. Louvre. and the rings along the top edge of the ears. All these details belong to the costume of an Arvadite woman of about the time of Cyrus. It is clear, then, that these sarcophagi are a product of Phoeni- cian industry ; if any further evidence were necessary, it would be found in the fact, that, whenever they have been encountered outside the frontiers of Phoenicia proper, it has always been at some point where the Phoenicians are known to have made a lengthy sojourn. They have been found in Cyprus, at Kition v which was strictly a Phoenician city, and at Amathus, where