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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HE.^D OF A GAZELLE FORMING THE FIGCRE-HEAD OP AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY. Tin-: VESSELS OF TllK PUQiNICIANS. 19; these colonies, that before long the Mediterranean was surrounded by an almostunbroken chain of PhaMiician strongholds and trading stations. All the towns of the mother countrj—Arvad, Byblos, Berytus, Tyre, andSidon—possessed vessels engaged in cruising long before the Egyptian con-quest of Syria. We have no direct information from any existing monumentto show us what these vessels were like, but we are familiar with the construc-tion of the galleys which formed the fleets of the Pharaohs of the XVIII
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.\N EGYITIAX TIIADIXU VESSKI, lit TIIK FIRST HALF (JK TIIK XVIu DTNASTY.- dynasty. The art of shipbuilding had made considerable progress since thetimes of the Memphite kings. From the period when Egypt aspired tobecome one of the great powers of the world, she doubtless endeavoured tobring her naval force to the same pitch of perfection as her land forces couldboast of, and her fleets probably consisted of the best vessels which the dock-yards of that day could turn out. Phfrnician vessels of this period may there-fore be regarded with reason as constructed on lines similar to those of theEgyptian ships, differing from them merely in tlie minor details of theshape of the hull and manner of rigging. The hull continued to be builtlong and narrow, rising at the stem and stern. The bow was terminated by asort of hook, to whicii, in time of peace, a bronze ornament was attached. For the existence of a navy at Uyblos, sec p. 172 of tlie present work; its vessels, together withthose of Simy

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