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| Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| Date | 1883 |
| Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
| Title | Page 42 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_058.jpg |
| Transcript | 1 '""M" 42 PICTVRl V PALESTINE. SAIDA, or SIDON. sidonaque pulchram." '* The go<: Sidon the beautiful." Tl I from two of the later Latin poets sum up the two striking features i the history of Sidon, the antiquity of its religious cult, and the beauty of its scener i^ was the Divine ( ity, which to the Phoenicians, and through them to Greece and Cartl as the Jerusalem of Baal worship. Here was worshipped that divine Phoenician religion, Baal Sidon and Ashtaroth, the same which at Geba] (JebetQ was called Thainmu/ and Baalath, at Carthage Baal llamon and Tanith, among the Hittil Shed and Shedath, and in Damascus lladad and Atargath. Here was the home M Astoreth, whom the Phc ' d Ast.i . ■ n with CTMCent horns : To wl it image nightly by the moon, Sidoniaa virgini paid their vow-, and poo The hardy n of sidon and Tyre, in pushing their adventurous prows into the El the I -in, and beyond the Pillars of Hercules, carried with them their rel aid their peculiar diviniti Their Ashtaroth became Aphrodite in Gn tnd the tempi Tl an was dedicated to Melkarth, the Tyrian Hercules. In the island of Malta a d( ription speaks of " the lord Melkarth, Baal of Tyn Old Sidon, named by the grandson of \oah,and Styled Great Xidon by Joshua, tic t living (ity in the world, and claims the honour of being mentioned both in ' and in the I lomeric poems. I lomer speaks of Sidon as rich in OW ; butil «»res : native, excepting the iron, brought down from Southern Lebanon. It> ; brought from Britain (Ber-el tank), Spain, and the Caucasus, its steel from Colchis, its gold I copper from the Red Sea and Cyprus, and the Sidonian and Tyrian art: for their broi ad other works in metallurgy. • Sidonians wore already a commercial nation when the Egyptians expelled the shepherd kings, and from the first half of the seventeenth till the end of the thirteenth Itury i:.< .. the Sidonians wore subject to the Egyptians. A papyrus in the British Museum contains the account of an imaginary journey mad M Egyptian into Syria, at the r.n(\ of the reign of Rameses II., which indicates that rtt, Sidon, and l\io at that time were peaceful tributaries of Egypt The Sidonians supplied the mercantile and military navy of Egypt, and during this riod, when m^ rival na\ v existed, Sidonian trade and commercial | ' l,u:,r { point Beyond the Nile valley, the sailors of Sidon and BeirAtcoasted aL and founded Cambe, afterwards Carthage, and Hippo. The Egyptiai anling it as impure, and as the domain of Set, th ' oi ur) of Osiris. An Egyptian navy was therefore out of the question Sidoi id seamen manned the Egyptian fleets in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and |