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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VII--AESTHETIC ART
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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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