hat
the neolithic civilization lingered in remote regions
while the voice of Pericles was heard in Athens, and the
name of Hannibal was a terror in Italy.--See Boyd
Dawkins' "Early Man in Britain," p. 481.

[19] See chapter on patterns.

[20] In the Troad.

[21] Some of the Egyptian arts we know are pre-Homeric
(if Homer really sang 800 B.C.), and Asiatic art was
then in its highest development.

[22] See chapter on stitches, cut work (_post_). This
funeral tent is a monumental work, inasmuch as the
inscription inwrought on it gives us the name and title
of her in whose honour it was made, and whose remains it
covered. See Villiers Stewart's "Funeral Tent of an
Egyptian Queen."

[23] Herodotus, book ii. c. 182; book iii. c. 47
(Rawlinson's Trans.). See Rock's Introduction, p. xiv.

[24] Homer mentions "Sidonian stuffs and Phoenician
skill" (Iliad, v. 170); also "Sidonian Embroidery."
Ibid. vi. 287-295.

[25] The Assyrian designs are such as are now still
worked at Benares, and being full of animals, they are
called Shikurgah, or "happy hunting-grounds." See Sir G.
Birdwood's "Industrial Arts of India," p. 236. See also
Plate 4.

[26] See Perrot and Chipiez (pp. 737-757); also Clermont
Ganneau's Histoire de l'Art, "L'Imagerie Phenicienne,"
Plate 1, pt. 1. Coupe de Palestrina. He says that
certain scenes from the "Shield of Achilles" are
literally to be found on Phoenician vases that have
come down to us--vases of which Homer himself must have
seen some of analogous design.

[27] Homer speaks of Sidonian embroideries, "Iliad,"
vi., 287-295.

[28] See Egyptian fragments in the British Museum, and
the specimens of Peruvian textiles; and Reiss and
Stuebel's "Necropolis of Ancon in Peru."

[29] At Cervetri, Dennis' "Etruria," ed. 1878, i. p.
268.

[30] The restless activity of the Phoenicians has
often helped to confuse our aesthetic knowledge, and has
caused the waste of much speculation in ascertaining how
certain objects of luxury, belonging to distant
civilizations, can possibly have arrived at the places
where we find them.

[31] "The Beautiful Gate of the Temple was covered all
over with gold. It had also golden vines above it, from
which hung clusters of grapes as tall as a man's
height.... It had gold