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 ii2 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. temple dating from the reign of Augustus, the ruins of which are to be seen at El Belat, in the neighbourhood of Byblos. 1 No rustication is to be found either at Arvad, or in those parts of the walls of Sidon which are believed to be Phoenician (Fig. 4i). 2 We must then, at least for the present, give up the notion of seeing a characteristic of Phoenician architecture in this way of finishing a wall. On the other hand, all the examinations that have been made, outside Syria, of buildings ascribed to the Phoenicians on one ground or another, confirm what we have said as to their love for materials of great size, often but roughly dressed and laid one upon another without cement. Sometimes, as for example in FIG. 47. The wall of Hyrsa. From Bculc the monuments of Malta and Gozo, there are no regular courses ; the walls look like the primitive Cyclopean walls of Greece. We give an instance of this in Fig. 46, which shows one entrance to the building whose still unexplored ruins are to be seen at Malta, at Burdj-en-Nadur, above the port of Marsasirocco, and about 280 yards from the sea. 3 At Carthage, on the other hand, in those walls of Byrsa which were disengaged at several points by Beule only, however, to be 1 REXAN, Mission, p. 223. 2 Ibid. p. 362, and plate Iviii. figs, i, 2, and 3. 3 A. CARUANA, Report on the Phoenician and Roman Antiquities in the Group of the Islands of Malta (8vo, Malta, 1882), pp. 17-19.