t patrons and were exceedingly magnificent person- ages to look upon, too, if one can believe a writer who said in describing one of them: "His robes were marvellously embroidered, the part covering his head being adorned with flowers and scroll-work and groups of figures." A certain elaborate… … Mosaic of anc it' lit Tyre. Phoenicia The Phoenicians came next; and as Egypt had lived in the shadow of re- ligion, Babylon of scholarship, Assyria of conquest — so Phoenicia lived for commerce. The Phoenicians settled on the shores of the Mediterranean and became possibly the greatest traders the…
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