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CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE PHCENICIAN CIVILIZATION". PAGE i. The Situation of Syria and the Configuration of the Phoenician Coast i IT 2. The Phoenicians; their Origin and their First Establishment . . . n 56 3. Religion 5683 4. The Phoenician Writing 83 93 5. General Remarks upon the Study of Phoenician Art 93 102 CHAPTER II. ON TH GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PHCENICIAN ARCHITECTURE. i. Materials and Construction . .' 103 113 2. Forms . . : 113 125 3. Decoration 126 141 CHAPTER III. SEPULCHRAL ARCHITECTURE. i. The Ideas of the Phoenicians as to a Future Life " 142 148 2. The Phoenician Tomb 149 179 3. Sarcophagi and Sepulchral Furniture 179 213 4. The Phoenician Tomb away from Phoenicia 213 250
