Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 181
dis- i5o HISTORIC ORNAMENT. posal of the Egyptians, who possessed, in the early days,no fleet of their own. Sidon was sacked and taken by the Philistines aboutB.C. 1000 or 900, and from that period Tyre rose in supre-macy. The first Tyrian king known by name was Abi-baal, the contemporary of David… … Fig. 2 u .—Phoenician War Galley ; from Layard. (P. & C.) hadastj called by the Greeks Carchedon, and by theRomans Carthage. This daughter of Tyre rose to great prosperity, butnever forgot her allegiance to the mother city. Theircombined fleets sailed to, and founded, colonies in Sar-dinia,…
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