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 54 HISTORY OF ART IN PIICKNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. of the fourth century, when the empire of the Achajmenids seemed on the point of dissolution. In 316, under Ochus, Sidon ~ FIG. 14. Votive stele from Carthage. French National Library. rose and massacred its Persian garrison. Betrayed by her king Tennes, she was retaken, reduced to ashes, and her inhabitants sold for slaves. 1 FIG. 15. Votive stele from Carthage. French National Library. Again, after the battle of Issus (B.C. 333), Byblos, Arvad, Sidon, 1 DIODORUS, xvi., 41-45. Diodorus places these events three or four years too soon. According to him, the submission of Egypt and Phoenicia took place between