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8 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. waited till the sixth, perhaps even the fifth, century, before im- porting it from the islands of the ^gsean Sea. He only did that when the ever-growing splendour of Greek art began to FIG. 5. Ivory statuette in the Louvre. Actual size. dazzle him, and to excite him to higher ambitions ; until then he was content with the rocks, some soft, some hard, but all of mediocre quality and poor appearance, which his native country
