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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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On the right two of the spearmen are engaged with a wild boar, which they are wounding with their lances; on the left the two other spearmen and the archer are attacking a wild bull.

In the middle a cock separates the two groups, while at the two extremities two animal forms, a horse grazing and a dog trying to make out a scent, balance each other.

The fourth side of the sarcophagus presents us with a banqueting scene.

On four couches, much like the Assyrian,[727] are arranged the banqueters.

At the extreme right the couch is occupied by a single person, who has a long beard and extends a wine-cup towards an attendant, a naked youth, who is advancing towards him with a wine-jug in one hand, and a ladle or strainer in the other.


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