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 238 HISTORY OK ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. in the country about Tyre ; no mummy-cases as at Sidon, or sarcophagi covered with reliefs, as at Amathus ; no moulded steles, or winged lions and sphinxes, as at Golgos ; nothing but the nudity of well-whitened walls and the monotony of arrange- ments that never varied in any essential particular. In all this we FIG. 165. Plan of a Carthaginian tomb. From Beule. must not see the effect of police regulation or of hieratic prescrip- tion ; it is sufficiently explained by the very history of Carthage. In comparison with the cities of Phoenicia and the island of Cyprus, Carthage was a modern town ; she had no archaic period. Add to this that she was in Africa, far enough away from Egypt, FIG. 166. Section of a Carthaginian tomb. From Beule. Assyria, and Greece ; the influence of the great national arts of those three countries did not press upon her too closely and directly ; she had fewer types and motives offered to her for imitation than Phoenicia, and took even less pains to invent. The Tyrian colonists, by whom Carthage was founded, brought