510
In Cyprus also a mask of this kind has been found.
511
Von Gutschmid, in "Fleckeisens Jahrbücher," 1875, s. 579.
512
ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΝ σ´ γ´ πίναξ; A. 7, B. 8.
513
Helbig, "Cenni sopra l'arte fenicia," p. 17 ff.
514
Ceccaldi, "Les fouilles de Curium," Revue Archéolog. 1877.
515
Renan, loc. cit. pp. 175, 181, 397.
516
Job xix. 23.
517
Rödiger, "Z. D. M. G." 9, 647; Schlottmann, "Inschrift Esmunazars;" Halévy, "Mélanges," pp. 9, 34; Oppert, "Records of the Past," 9, 109.
518
Strabo, p. 757.
519
Joshua xix. 26. Strabo, p. 758. Tacitus says, "On the shore of Judæa the Belus falls into the sea: the sand collected at the mouth of this river, when mixed with saltpetre, is melted into glass. The strip of shore is of moderate extent, but inexhaustible;" "Hist." 5, 7
520
Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 5, 17.
521
Adolph Schmidt, "Forschungen auf dem Gebiete des Alterthums," s. 69.
522
Schmidt, loc. cit. 129 ff.
523
Herod. 4, 151; Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 9, 60; Strabo, pp. 145, 835.
524
Strabo, p. 757.
525
Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 5, 17.
526
Plut. "Alex." c. 36.
527
Movers, "Phœniz." 3, 103.
528
Job xxviii. 1-11. In this description the author could only have Phenician mines in his eye.
529
Müllenhoff, "Deutsche Altertumskunde," 1, 120 ff.
530
Strabo, p. 142. Kotini = the Oleastrum of the Romans; Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 3, 3. Ptolem. 2, 4, 14.
531
Strabo, pp. 175, 176, 120; Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 7, 57.
532
Ezekiel xxvii. 5, 6; Levy, "Siegel und Gemmen." If the first text of the Pentateuch represents the names of the tribes of the people as engraved upon the precious stones in the shield on the breast of the high priest (Exod. xxv. 7; xxviii. 9 ff, supra, 207), the author had, no doubt, the work of Phenician artists in his eye.
533
Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 5, 13.
534
Diodor. 19, 58.