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HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. (Fig. iS). 1 Certain trees received homage of the same kind. Under the Zeus-Demarous of Philo of Byblos we may recognize the Phoenician form Baal-T/iamar, " the Lord of the Palm-tree." The worship of betyta, which we encounter in every country reached by Phoenician influence, may be traced to the same FIG. 17. Descent from the Pass of Lcgnia, in the Lebanon. source. The word we have used above comes to us from the Greeks, and they took it with some slight alteration from the 1 RENAN, Mission de Phcnicie, pp. 296-301. Fig. 18, like i and 17, is borrowed from M. LORTET'S beautiful work, La Syrie d'Aujourdhui (Hachette, 1884). 2 BERGER, La Phenicie, p. 25. PHILO OF BYBLOS, Fragment i., 16-22. M. Berger's explanation of the Zeus A^/zapou? of Philo is probable and ingenious, but the group Baal-Thamar has never yet been found in a Phoenician text.