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THE PHOENICIAN TOMB AWAY FROM PHOENICIA. 2 19 stomach (Fig. 150). This figure seems to have been reserved for the tombs of women, while those of warriors were placed by the coffins of men. 1 Some tombs, like those of Alambra, from their furnishing and general arrangement and from the more advanced artistic style of the objects found in them, may be ascribed to a later date. The ornament is still carried out in lines, but is painted as well as engraved, and skilfully-made trinkets are found as well as bronze weapons. 2 Metal cups, too, have been found decorated with concentric zones round a central rosette or medallion. 3 FIG. 149. Terra-cotta statuette. Cyprus. 4 FIG. 150. Terra-cotta statuette. Cyprus. 4 We have no hesitation in recognizing in all these tombs, whether the pottery they contain is incised or painted, those of Phoenicians established in the island, or at least of a population which received from them the first elements of political life. One of the vases ornamented with geometrical desiens bears a <-* O Phoenician epigraph, which, we are told by General di Cesnola, 1 CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 93. Upon the cemetery at Alambra see also FROHNER, preface to the Catalogue de la Collection Bar re (4to, 1878). 2 CESNOLA, Cyprus, pp. 68-79, ar "d plates i. and ii. 3 Ibid. p. 77, and G. COLONNA CECCALDI, Monuments antiques da Chypre, chapter iii. 4 Drawn by Benedite from the originals in the Feuardent collection.