. A short history of art . re imported into Europe. What we read of their architecture reminds us of thebuildings of Assyria and Persia, with their wooden andbrazen columns, their ceilings panelled with cedar, and theirwalls covered with gold. The only distinctively Phoenician form in architecture thatwe know of is that represented in the accompanying illustra-tion of a tomb from Amrith. It is built in cylinders, decreasing in size towards the top,which is shaped like a dome. Great as is the interest which centres around the results ofrecent explorations in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, thed
. A short history of art . re imported into Europe. What we read of their architecture reminds us of thebuildings of Assyria and Persia, with their wooden andbrazen columns, their ceilings panelled with cedar, and theirwalls covered with gold. The only distinctively Phoenician form in architecture thatwe know of is that represented in the accompanying illustra-tion of a tomb from Amrith. It is built in cylinders, decreasing in size towards the top,which is shaped like a dome. Great as is the interest which centres around the results ofrecent explorations in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, thediscoveries have not been of a nature to enlighten us con-cerning the art of the Hebrews. Some of the originalcourses of stone in Solomons Temple, and a few tombs which 52 ART OP WESTEiRN ASIA 63 belong to late Jewish or Roman times, afford very littlebasis for restorations of Jewish buildings. The descriptionof Solomons Temple in the Bible reminds us of Egyptiantemples; but, for the present at least, the student of art can. TOMB AT AMRITH (RESTORED). FROM RENAN Note the Rude-cut Half-figures of Lions, Primitive in Character, andthe Dentated Frieze and Stepped Embattlements Above, Very-Usual Designs in Central and Western Asia form no accurate idea of its appearance. (See Fekgtjssok,p. 191, vol. i.) Painting and sculpture were forbiddenamong the Jews. The only important artistic remains left by the early in-habitants of Asia Minor are tombs. For our present pur-poses these may be classified under three heads:—
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