PHOENICIAN SCULPTURE IN THE WEST. 67 the upper, the aforesaid pitcher. Above the latter there is a double fillet and a triangular pediment with the disk and crescent. We should like to know whether this caduceus was borrowed from FIG. 62. Stele from Adrumetum. Height ig inches. Louvre. the Greeks and their Hermes, or whether it is a relic of some far older eastern god. The caduceus is no uncommon object on Carthaginian steles, 1 and here we reproduce a token or counter FIG. 63. Terra-cotta token. Actual size. In the St. Louis Museum at Carthage. (Fig. 63), on which it appears beside a bull's head and the cone of Tanit. This little object was found in the same place as the steles of which we have been speaking. 1 BERGER, Les Ex-voto, &C., pp. 24-25.
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