Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 185
h thePhoenicians, and more personalthan any of their other divini-ties. She was nature itself,the great goddess of life, pre-siding over creation and alsodestruction. This Syro-Phoe-nician goddess of the Si-donians was adopted byCyprus, Cythera, Paphos, andEryx, in Sicily. She is alsosupposed to be… … Fig. 217.—Astarle, lena-coUa,height 10^ ins. (P. & C.) PHCENICIAN ART. 65 A terra-cotta model of a small temple is peculiar indesign (Fig. 218) ; it was found in Cyprus, and may havebeen the model of the shrine sacred to Astarte. As beforementioned, Phoenician architecture, from the few…
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