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132 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. different from those treated in the Egypto- Phoenician style. The high, barbaric head-dresses, so repugnant to Hellenic usages, become smaller and lower. Sometimes we find them surviving FIG. 84. Detail of CDStum3 From a Cypriot statite. New York. in a kind of skull-cap, from beneath which peeps out a single row of small curls (Vol. L Plate i, Fig. i); 1 elsewhere the hair is plastered down on the head and brought over the forehead in FIG. 85. Capital of a Cypriot stele. New York Museum. such a way that it almost joins the eyebrows (Fig. 86) ; it is confined by a band decorated with rosettes (Fig. 87), or crowned with a garland of leaves. " The face is rudely modelled but 1 Height of this head. 9 inches.