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ICONIC SCULPTURE. 35 roughly executed bronze now in the Louvre (Fig. 32) but of unknown provenance^ It is shaped like a sheath or, as the Greeks would call it, a xoanon. The head is covered with a helmet, a sword with a curved hilt hangs in front of the body but no baldrick FIG. 31 Limestone statuette. Ile'ght 6 inches. Louvre. or other means of suspension is indicated. A goat or fawn lies across the shoulders of the figure, whose arms, now broken away, must have held it by the feet. This little monument differs from FIG. 32. Bronze statuette. Height 3! inches. Louvre. the one previously described only by its rough and summary execution. 1 LONGPRIER catalogues it under Phoenician bronzes, calling attention to its analogies with the bronzes from Sardinia (Mtiste Napoleon 111., letterpress attached to plate xxi.).