Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 203
eeven a small quantity of the dye. The city of Tyre had extensive factories for themanufacture of the Tyrianpurple. It is not obtainednow from the shell-fish, as, ofcourse, many other ways andcheaper have been found toproduce a similar colour. The Phoenicians were adeptsat ivory-carving,… … Fig. 241.—Intaglio on Chalce-dony. (P. ^ C.) CHAPTER X. ART IN A^XIEXT PERSIA. Persia occupies what is known as the tableland of Iran,and is a plateau bounded on the north by the ElburzMountains, Armenia, and Afghanistan ; the Bol-ur andHindu-Kush in the east; the heights that are parallel tothe…
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