584 report— 1878. 



being afforded him by the Greek Government. The Mycenae head was silver, with 

 horns thickly plated with gold, and the head found in Ireland was a bronze one, with 

 the horns (missing) made to take on and off, thereby clearly indicating that they were 

 capable of being removed for security, and were therefore, no doubt, also golden. 

 Both the heads had the sun disc on the forehead, but the bronze one, which he con- 

 sidered was evidently of Phoenician workmanship, had also the emblem of Astarte 

 or Ashtoreth, the Sidonian deity, on the forehead. In the mask found in Ireland, 

 the tongue protruded, indicating sleep or rest, and this symbolism was further ex- 

 emplified by the crescent moon being placed beneath the sun disc, and so indicative 

 of her rest or sleep, a strong similitude when taken in connection with the well- 

 known appeal to the priests of Baal, who must have represented their deities in 

 action or occupation, " Cry aloud, for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is pur- 

 suing, or sleepeth, and must be awaked." Dr. Phene, who had gone carefully over 

 the whole districts referred to in Asia Minor, Greece, the Levant, and the complete 

 course in France, found a cow's head sculptured in the island of Paros, and another 

 on part of an ancient temple now forming the lintel of a Greek church near Ainycke, 

 not far from Sparta. Another object of great interest was represented, as were all 

 the others, by a fine photograph representing a bronze figure of a deity, shown to be 

 the Tyrian Hercules, found at Vienne, near Besancon, not far from the old route re- 

 ferred to, through Gaul. This deity bore on its head an enormous crown composed 

 of hammers, the number of which agrees with the united number of the Kabiri of 

 Samothrace and the Cyclopes of Sicily, their occupation being the same, viz. that 

 of metallurgists. Dr. Phene considers they represented the same personifications, 

 but lost the attributes of divinity as their traditions were brought westward. The 

 attitude of this deity and a vessel he holds in bis right band agree with the repre- 

 sentation of one of the Kabiri on a coin of Perganms. 



