The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . chichte der Phonizier, pp. 68-70), which isconjeeturally placed by most scholars in the neighbourhood of Kas el-Aiu. * For Autu, cf. p. 183 of tho present work. If the name has been preserved, as I believe it to be,in that of El-Awwatin, the town must be that whose ruins we find at the foot of Tell-Mashfik, andwhich are often mistaken for those of Palastyrus (Renan, Mission de Phinicie, pp. 57S, 579). Tlie templeon the summit of the Tell was probably that of Heracles Aslrochiton mentioned by Nonnus(^Dionysiaca, xl. 396), as was conjectu
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . chichte der Phonizier, pp. 68-70), which isconjeeturally placed by most scholars in the neighbourhood of Kas el-Aiu. * For Autu, cf. p. 183 of tho present work. If the name has been preserved, as I believe it to be,in that of El-Awwatin, the town must be that whose ruins we find at the foot of Tell-Mashfik, andwhich are often mistaken for those of Palastyrus (Renan, Mission de Phinicie, pp. 57S, 579). Tlie templeon the summit of the Tell was probably that of Heracles Aslrochiton mentioned by Nonnus(^Dionysiaca, xl. 396), as was conjectured by Bertou (Essais sur la TopograpMe de Tyr, p. 6S), but notaccepted by Movers {Das Phonizische AUerthum, vol. i. p. 241, nolo 170)—a conjecture, however, whiclihas appeared possible, and even probable, to other scholars (Eenan, Mission de Phtfnicie, pp. 582, 683) ;this is the temple which the Tyrians represented to Alexander as being older than that of insularTyre (Justin, xi. 10; Quinttjs CnKTics, iv. 2). TJiF noMjrx OF Tvnr: ox ttje lfbaxox. 18/. THE SCULPTruED ROCKS OFHANAWEH. had built his viUage on the coast, while Usoos had founded his on the was the Baalsamim of starry tunic, lord of heaven and king of the sun.^iVs was customary, a popular Astarte was associated with these deities of highdegree, and tradition asserted that Melkarth purchased her favour by the gift oftlie first robe of Tyrian purple which was ever dyed. Priestesses of the goddesshad dwellings in all parts of the plain, and in several places tlie caves are stillpointed out where they entertained the devotees of the goddess.^ Eehind Aututhe ground rises abruptly, and along the face of the escarpment, half hidden bytrees and brushwood, are the remains of the most important of the Tyrian bury-ing-places, consisting of half-tilled-up pits, isolated caves, and dark galleries,where whole families lie together in their lust sleep. In some spots the chalkymass has been literally honeycombed by the q
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