History of Phoenicia eBook

George Rawlinson
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 508 pages of information about History of Phoenicia.

History of Phoenicia eBook

George Rawlinson
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 508 pages of information about History of Phoenicia.

[Footnote 1263:  Di Cesnola, p. 149.]

[Footnote 1264:  Ibid. pl. xiv.]

[Footnote 1265:  Ibid. pl. x.]

[Footnote 1266:  See Perrot et Chipiez, iii. 769, 771, 789.]

[Footnote 1267:  Perrot et Chipiez, iii. 798.]

[Footnote 1268:  C. W. King, in Di Cesnola’s Cyprus, pp. 363, 364.]

[Footnote 1269:  Mr. King says of it:  “No piece of antique worked agate hitherto known equals in magnitude and curiosity the ornament discovered among the bronze and iron articles of the treasure.  It is a sphere about six inches in diameter, black irregularly veined with white, having the exterior vertically scored with incised lines, imitating, as it were, the gadroons of a melon” (ibid. p. 363).]

[Footnote 1270:  Renan, Mission de Phenicie, Pls. xii. xiii.; Di Cesnola, Cyprus, pls. iv. and xxx.; and pp. 335, 336.]

[Footnote 1271:  Perrot et Chipiez, iii. 846-853.]

[Footnote 1272:  1 Kings xxii. 39.]

XIII—­PHOENICIAN WRITING, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE

[Footnote 0131:  This follows from the fact that the Greeks, who tell us that they got their letters from the Phoenicians, gave them names only slightly modified from the Hebrew.]

[Footnote 0132:  See Dr. Ginsburg’s Moabite Stone, published in 1870.]

[Footnote 0133:  See Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund for October 1881, pp. 285-287.]

[Footnote 0134:  Corp.  Ins.  Semit. i. 224-226.]

[Footnote 0135:  Herod. v. 58; Diod.  Sic. v. 24; Plin. H.  N. v. 12; vii. 56; Tacit. Ann. xi. 14; Euseb. Chron.  Can. i. 13; &c.]

[Footnote 0136:  Capt.  Conder, in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Jan. 1889, p. 17.]

[Footnote 0137:  Encycl.  Britann. i. 600 and 606.]

[Footnote 0138:  Conder, in Quarterly Statement, &c. l.s.c.]

[Footnote 0139:  See Gesenius, Mon.  Phoen. Tab. 19 and 20.]

[Footnote 1310:  See the Corpus Ins.  Semit. i. 3, 30, 73, &c.; Gesenius, Mon.  Phoen. Tab. 29-33.]

[Footnote 1311:  See on this entire subject Gesenius, Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta, pp. 437-445; Movers, article on Phoenizien in the Cyclopaedie of Ersch and Gruber; Renan, Histoire des Langues Semitiques, pp. 189-192.]

[Footnote 1312:  Renan, Histoire, &c., p. 186.]

[Footnote 1313:  Philo Byblius, Fr. i.]

[Footnote 1314:  Philo Byblius, Fr. ii.  Sec. 5-8.]

[Footnote 1315:  Ibid.  Fr. v.]

[Footnote 1316:  The Voyage of Hanno translated, and accompanied with the Greek Text, by Thomas Falconer, M.A., London, 1797.]

[Footnote 1317:  Quoted by Falconer in his second “Dissertation,” p. 67.]

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