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

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 97

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The Egyptians pos-sessed a fleet at this time with which they advanced to thePhoenician coast and took the city of Sidon, and alsoannexed the island of Cyprus to Egyptian rule. Egypt submitted to the Persian army under Cambysesin B.C. 527, and was for more than one hundred years after-wards a mere… … I-ig. loi.—The Egj-jitian Gorge. Amenrut was the only king of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty,and after the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Dynasties wereended, the latter, by the conquest of Egypt once more bythe Persians under Artaxerxes III. (B.C. 340), we find thecountry under Persian rule for the space…

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