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head of a leaper from Knossos (1), but also on Mycenaean ones, a prominent example being the ivory pyxis from Mnet-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, 434, Fig. 297 b.
(2)Schaeffer, Ugaritica, frontispiece.
(3)L'Art Phénicien du IIe Millénaire, 86.
(4)BCH 1947-8, p.XXV.
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