Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 182
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 … Fig. 213.—Carthaginian Coin, Electrum. (P. & C) demand for it in the manufacture of bronze in thisperiod. Their ships went as far as the Scilly Isles, to Cornwall^and to Ireland. Diodorus mentions that the inhabitantsof Great Britain were much softened in their manners bytheir intercourse with…
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