The small statuettes of the Phœnician gods and goddesses (Fig. 217) were the originals from which the Greeks developed their sculptured figures in the round. Among the gods of the Phœnicians were: Baal, _the Master_, the _Bel_ of Assyria, which seems to be a generic title for any chief divinity of a town or place, such as _Baal Peor_, _Baal-Sidon_, _Baal-Tsour_, or the _Baal_ of Tyre; _Tanit_, or the _face of Baal_, worshipped at Carthage; _Moloch_, or _Melek_. Melkart-Baal-Tsour was the full name of the Great God of Tyre, which means “Melkart, Master of Tyre.” _Baalat_ was the title for “mistress,” the goddess who shared the throne of Baal. Sidon-Astoret was the _Baalat_ of Sidon, the goddess Astarte, the Istar of the Assyrians, and the Aphrodite or Venus of the Greeks and Romans (Fig. 217). She was a favourite divinity with the Phœnicians, and more personal than any of their other divinities. She was nature itself, the great goddess of life, presiding over creation and also destruction. This Syro-Phœnician goddess of the Sidonians was adopted by Cyprus, Cythera, Paphos, and Eryx, in Sicily. She is also supposed to be the Moon-Goddess. The dove was sacred to her, and was offered to her in sacrifice; a Phœnician statuette (Fig. 217) represents her with a dove in her hand. The Phœnicians had many other minor gods. [Illustration: Fig. 218.—Model of a Small Temple, in terra-cotta, Louvre. (P. & C)] A terra-cotta model of a small temple is peculiar in design (Fig. 218); it was found in Cyprus, and may have been the model of the shrine sacred to Astarte. As before mentioned, Phœnician architecture, from the few remains of it that have been found, consists of borrowed forms from other nations, and if any development even in the ornamental forms is noticeable, it can generally be traced to the rising influence of the Greeks, especially in Cyprus and Carthage. The tomb at Amrit (Fig. 219) is, on the other hand, decidedly Assyrian in every detail, and is a happy example of architectural proportion. The fragment of an entablature from a temple at Byblos (Fig. 220) is of a later date, and has for design and decoration of the moulding the strongly marked features of Græco-Roman work, with the addition of the Egyptian winged globe and asps. [Illustration: Fig. 219.—Tomb of Amrit, restored from Renan. (P. & C.)] Cyprus was a Phœnician dependency; many vases, and a great multitude of other objects of art and treasures, have been brought to light from tombs and from the subterranean chambers of former temples, mainly through the instrumentality of General di Cesnola. [Illustration: Fig. 220.—Entablature, from a Temple at Byblos. Drawn by Wallet. (P. & C.)]]