What is "phenician"

Usage examples of "phenician".

An improvement has come over Phenician work however, and bands of gold instead of wire are used for holding artificial teeth in place.

If these characters were Phenician, why were they sent to a priest of a different country for interpretation?

This was also one of the titles out of many conferred upon the Phenician Hercules, to whom they attributed the invention of purple.

For all those old dreams of the advent of the Ten Lost Tribes, of Buddhist priests, of Welsh princes, or of Phenician merchants on American soil, and there exerting a permanent influence, have been consigned to the dustbin by every unbiased student, and when we see such men as Mr.

Among the Phenicians however, though we have good reasons to think that they learned their arts and crafts from the Egyptians, there is convincing evidence of a high development of dentistry.

It would be more than a little surprising, from what we know of the lack of inventiveness on the part of the Phenicians and their tendency to acquire their arts by imitation, if they had reached such a climax of invention by themselves.

Etruscans who inhabited the Italian hill country and the Phenicians, so that it is no surprise to find that the oldest of Etruscan tombs contain some fine examples of bridgework.

There are likewise well established the claims of the Phenicians and Greeks and even the Welsh and the Irish.

Melicartus, the Hercules of the Phenicians and Cretans, was, properly, Melech-Carta, the Deity of the place.

Greeks the highest, very gravely tell us, that they were brought over by the Phenicians, and Cadmus.

The district, upon which the Grecians conferred it, could not have supplied people sufficient to occupy the many regions, which the Phenicians were supposed to have possessed.