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head of a leaper from Knossos (1), but also on Mycenaean ones, a prominent example being the ivory pyxis from Minet-el-Beida representing a goddess between animals (2). In connection with the latter M. Dussaud thinks that the straight nose and the smile foreshadow Greek archaic art in such a remarkable manner that it is impossible to attribute them to a Semitic artist (3). To the Aegean sphere we may attribute also the exaggerated thighs of our statue which can be parallelled on the Mycenean ivory relief from Delos representing a warrior, the general style of which is strikingly similar to that of our bronze statue (4). Indeed we observe in both these representations an exaggeration not only of the / thighs
(1)BSA VIII Pl.III, and Evans P. of M. III, 431, Fig. 297 b.
(2)Schaeffer, Ugaritica, frontispiece.
(3)L'Art Phénicien du IIe Millenaire, 86.
(4)BCH 1947-8, p.XXV.
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