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400 HISTOKV OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDKNCIKS. upper (l ; ig. 27 1 ).* It has been suggested that the upper story contained store rooms while the lower consisted of slips like those at Carthage, in which galleys were laid up. The chambers of the lower story were twenty-three feet eight inches high, sixty feet deep, and fifteen feet four inches wide. Can these really have been sheds for galleys ? More than one objection occurs to us. We may, '0 20 at) 45 so itooM. FIG. 272. Admiral's palace, Utica. Plan of the ground-floor. From Daux. perhaps, accept their width as sufficient but we cannot say as much for their length. The Attic trireme, of which we know more than of any other ship used by the ancients, was from 112 to 1 16 feet long. 2 And how were the galleys to be lifted to the level of the 1 Our woodcut only shows one half of the basin, but as the whole was symmetri- cally arranged the other half may be guessed from it. 2 CARTAULT, La Tncre athcnienne, pp. 245, 246.