[History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Phoenicia CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART 58/60
The warrior and his horse (one only is seen) are rudely drawn, but the chariot is very distinctly made out, and has a wheel of an Assyrian type.
The Salaminians of Cyprus were famous for their war chariots,[7113] of which this may be a representation. The island of Sardinia has furnished a prodigious number of Phoenician seals.
A single private collection contains as many as six hundred.[7114] They are mostly scarabs, and the type of them is mostly Egyptian.
Sometimes they bear the forms of Egyptian gods, as Horus, or Thoth, or Anubis;[7115] sometimes cartouches with the names of kings as Menkara, Thothmes III., Amenophis III., Seti I., &c.;[7116] sometimes mere sacred emblems, as the winged uraeus, the disk between two uraei,[7117] and the like.
Occasionally there is the representation of a scene with which the Egyptian bas-reliefs have made us familiar:[7118] a warrior has caught hold of his vanquished and kneeling enemy by a lock of his hair, and threatens him with an axe or mace, which he brandishes above his head.
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