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Salaminia (Cyprus). The history treasures, & antiquities of Salamis in the island of Cyprus (1882)

Cesnola, Alessandro Palma di, 1837-1914, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, Trübner and co. · leaf 92

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ame fashion, bear the heads of lions (fig. 27) of exquisite workmanship and noble designs. Bracelets with lions’ heads have been found at Kurium and else- where. They were believed to have been of Assyrian origin, but the dispersion of jewellery of the like character and closely resembling the… … merchants who attended Sidonian markets. “ The mer- chants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants : 1 hey occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones and gold.’ “ What city is like ! yrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? M lien thy wares went forth…

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