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1 86 HISTORY OF ART IN PHCENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. necessity, few in number, but they serve at least to suggest familiar scenes. Where the artist has been forced to be content with three or four figures, perhaps there were in reality hundreds thus turning about the musician or the divine image, and filling the sacred woods and precincts with their excited cries. The dance and its regulating music played a great part in the festivals of the Cypriot temples ; of this the numerous clay or stone FIG. 123. Limestone group. Louvre. Height 6^ inches. statuettes of players on the lute and lyre is sufficient proof. In some of these a Cypriot origin is clearly attested by the head-dress and costume as a whole (Figs. 124 and 125), while others have nothing local either in their dress or execution and may have been the work of foreign artists. 1 1 Arehtxologische Zeitung, 1871, pp. 67-76. See also a woman playing on the lyre, perhaps a muse, in CESNOLA, Cyprus, p. 154.