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 212 HISTORY OF ART IN PIXF.NICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. subterranean world. As a natural effect of the beliefs which su< r "'ested these arrangements, the piety of relations led them to deposit in the grave such instruments of daily life as the defunct had been in the habit of using and the jewels with which he had adorned his person. 1 Lamps are continually found. They were left burning no doubt when the tomb was closed. Small amphone held, we may guess, a supply of water.- Women were entombed with their bracelets, with the rings of bron/e and silver which they wore upon their ankles, with their necklaces, ear-rings and finger-rings, with the metal mirrors before which they had so often plaited their long tresses, and the pencil they had used to heighten the shadows about their eyes. Boxes, cups, and vases filled with various cosmetics completed the battery of the female toilet. I-' ic. 146. Silver ling, with scarab in agate. Actual size. From Kenan. Beside the corpse of a man was placed his seal, often mounted in a silver ring (Fig. 146).' It is curious that in the long and carefully compiled list of objects found during a course of ex- cavations in the necropolis of Sidon extending over two years, we do not find a single weapon of any kind or a fragment of one. In the case of every other people by whom tombs were filled with these relics of the life passed above, swords and lances, shields and helmets, are encountered at every step. The peculiarity can only be explained by the national character and habits of the Phoenicians. They were a people of merchants and not of 1 See GAILLARDOT, Journal des Fouilles, in the Mission de Phcnide, pp. 469, 473, 478, &c., and the list of objects found in the necropolis of Sai'da, classed by tombs. " Ibid. pp. 477, 478, and 488, 489.
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