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322 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. Melkart at Gades had a great reputation in the time of Strabo, 1 but now ve do not even know its site. In Carthaginian Africa no temples earlier than the Roman Conquest have been found, but various signs prove that it pos- sessed buildings whose decorations had certain features in common o with those in other parts of greater Phoenicia. Here, for instance, FIG. 234. Lintel at Ebba. Limestone. Height 55 inches. is a lintel which is at present doing duty as a doorpost at Ebba, to the south of Kef (Fig. 234). The sockets for the hinges may still be traced. But the curious thing about it is that it bears, between two lotus buds, those symbols to which we have already drawn 1 STRABO, iii. v. 3, 5, 9.