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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER VI--ARCHITECTURE
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"Phoenician art, which issued, as it would seem, originally from mere troglodytism, was, from the time when it arrived at the need of ornament, essentially an art of imitation.

That art was, above all, industrial; that art never raised itself for its great public monuments to a style that was at once elegant and durable.

The origin of Phoenician architecture was the excavated rock, not the column, as was the case with the Greeks.

The wall replaced the excavated rock after a time, but without wholly losing its character.

There is nothing that leads us to believe that the Phoenicians knew how to construct a keyed vault.


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