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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 182

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rus, the Grecian Archipelago, and to Spain,doing enormous trade with both East and West. ThePhoenician ships that are known to us from the reliefrepresentations are of two kinds, the round-prowedgalleys, or cargo-carriers (Fig. 210), and the ram-stemmedvessels, or war galleys (Fig. 211). There is… … Fig. 2 12.—Carthaginian Coin, Silver. (P. iSc C.) with the ships of Tyre in the East, and at length forcedthe Tyrians to find new markets in the West. The staple trade of the Tyrians had now become that otmetals, the chief of which was tin, owing to the great

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