Word: phoenician
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Semitic Seminary. Phoenician Cosmogony. Professor Toy. Sever...
Semitic Seminary. Phoenician Cosmogony. Professor Toy. Sever...
...language is the oldest branch of the great Semitic family and is a sister to the Hebrew. Arabic, Phoenician, Ethiopian, and Aramaean. As the Semites in general have marked physiognomic and mental traits, so the languages which they spoke are sharply distinguished from the other great groups of languages. The triliteralism of stems, simplicity of verb forms, peculiar mode of expressing the genitive relation, close union of the personal pronouns with noun or verb, absence of a neuter gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially...
Some time ago in the course of excavations at Sidon, eleven sarcophagi were discovered; four Phoenician and seven Greek. The Greek ones have been removed to Constantinople and will be exhibited as soon as a fitting room can be prepared. One of these is of such immense proportions and so magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus...
...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...