The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . served in Egypt for the lunar gods. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from p. 365 ofRenans Mission de Phinicie, p. 365. ^ Renan, Mission de Phinicie, p. 69, andpi. ix,, where one of the shrines of Amrit isreproduced; the urajus frieze crowning it must have been the origin of its modern naine, Aiu el-Hayyat, the Fountain of Serpents. Cf. the similar remains pointed out by Renan at Arvad (Id., ihid., p. ^9), at Sidon {ibid., p. 305), and at Tyre (ihid., p. 561). • With regard to the Egyptian aspect of the at Adlun, see p. 16G, note .5
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . served in Egypt for the lunar gods. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from p. 365 ofRenans Mission de Phinicie, p. 365. ^ Renan, Mission de Phinicie, p. 69, andpi. ix,, where one of the shrines of Amrit isreproduced; the urajus frieze crowning it must have been the origin of its modern naine, Aiu el-Hayyat, the Fountain of Serpents. Cf. the similar remains pointed out by Renan at Arvad (Id., ihid., p. ^9), at Sidon {ibid., p. 305), and at Tyre (ihid., p. 561). • With regard to the Egyptian aspect of the at Adlun, see p. 16G, note .5, of tlie present volume. Renan, «p. cit., \>. 421, et stq., insists upon the resemblance between the Phoenician Taricheutica and the Egyptian tomij. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin; cf. , Munumenti Storici, vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 110, and pi. ii. E. This monument was in tlie Louvre Museum. See p. 101, supra, for another stele of the same series. ;i figures of gods or kings holding a lion by the tail are found on various monuments of 2 p. I. SKIZINC. A LION. 578 THE RISE OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE.
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