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 GENERAL REMARKS UPON THE STUDY OF PHOENICIAN ART. 97 she played in the antique world, to produce all those objects, now so numerous and so well known, which are neither frankly Egyptian, nor frankly Assyrian, and yet contain no important elements from any other source. Finally, the Phoenicians now FIG. 34. Phoenician wall of Eryx. 1 and then signed their works. In the ramparts of the great city of Eryx, so famous for its shrine of the Syrian Astarte, the marks of the Carthaginian masons have been found quite lately on the stones of the lower courses (Fig. 34). This is almost always 1 Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, pars i. plate 29 (p. 96). VOL. I. O