Manual of oriental antiquities : including the architecture, sculpture, and industrial arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage (1906)
Babelon, Ernest, 1854-1924 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 268
PHG@NICIAN AND CYPRIOTE ART. 245 and even Carthage. The famous sanctuary of Astarte, which stood on the scarped peak which overlooks Eryx, in Sicily, has perished; so has the temple of Baal- Hammon at Marsala (Lilybeum) and the Sardo- Phoenician sanctuaries of Baal-Samaim, Astarte, Eshmun, and… … destruction which followed Fig. 191.—Roman wall at Byrsa eter : (Boulé, Fouilles a Carthage). Scipio’s conquest, in the year 146 before our era, was systematic, and ex- tended to the very foundation of the walls. What did escape was altered and transformed for the profit of the Roman colony which…
Art, Asian · Oriental antiquities
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