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 270 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA 'AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. clay, after which the object is submitted to sufficient heat to vitrify the mixture. 1 The industry was so peculiarly Egyptian that the Greeks called this enamelled earth Egyptian stone (klBov alyvjmaK^v). In a passage already quoted, Scylax makes use of this term and, no doubt, he meant by it to denote those countless seals, amulets, and FIG. 206. Patera from Dali. From Ceccaldi. 2 other things of this material, which the Phoenicians carried to the western coasts of Africa. 3 Such things had then the same success 1 One of the first conditions of success in this operation is the good quality of the material. I saw in M. Greau's collection a stick of fine blue glass which came from Egypt, and is of the same tint as the finest Egyptian enamels. M. Grdau thinks, and his notion seems probable enough, that it once formed part of the materials of an enameller. 2 Monuments antiques de Chypre, plate vii. 3 SCYLAX, Periplus, 112.