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 260 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Phoenicia counted for nothing. Now and then in the course of our work we have been obliged to step outside the limits we had traced, because at many points those limits are floating and un- certain, but we cannot deliberately apply ourselves to a study which would manifestly draw us beyond our frontiers and keep us there. When Tyre and Sidon, when Kition and other Cypriot towns struck those coins of which we have reproduced here and there a specimen, by that very act they put themselves at the feet of Greece, and of Greece already mistress of all the resources of which her genius was to dispose.