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 4io HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. that can be re- ferred to the Car- thaginian period. We are told, how- ever, that, in the course of an ex- cavation made by a competent person, a coral amulet with two uraei upon it was found. 1 Many works in carved wood, in- crusted with metals, enamel and ivory, must also have been sent out by the Phoenician work- shops. They had at their disposal many valuable timbers : viz. the ce- dars of Lebanon ; cypress, which was abundant in Cyprus and Crete ; and the box-tree, which grows everywhere round the basin of the Mediterranean. Unhappily, wood has succumbed to time everywhere but in Egypt. Bronze has been more fortunate. We have a few small things by which we can see how 1 E. PAIS, La Sardegna prima del dominio romano, p. 50, note 5.