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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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whenever the slopes are not too steep to retain a shallow layer of nourishing
mould. It would be hard to find, even among the most picturesque spots of
Europe, a landscape in which wildness and beauty are more happily combined,
or where the mildness of the air and sparkling coolness of the streams offer a
more perfect setting for the ceremonies attending the worship of Astartê.²In

EUSEBIUS, Life of Constantine, iii. 55) either with Fakra (MANNERT, Syrien, p. 21), or with El-
Yamuni (SEPP, Jerusalem und das Heilige Land, vol. ii. p. 335). Seetzen was the first to place it at
El-Afka, and his proposed identification has been amply confirmed by the researches of Renan
(Mission de Phénicie, pp. 299, 300, 305-309).
¹Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph ; cf. Lortet, La Syrie d'aujourdhui. p. 649.
² A full description of the site and ruins is given by RENAN, Mission de Phénicié, pp. 295-301.
The temple had been rebuilt during the Roman period, as were nearly all the temples of this region.
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THE AMPHITEATRE OF APHAKA AND THE SOURCE Of THE NAHR-IBRAHÎM.
Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph.

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SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST.

the basin of the river and of the torrents by which it is fed,
there appears a succession of charming and romantic scenes—gaping chasms
with precipitous ochre-coloured walls; narrow fields laid out in terraces on
the slopes, or stretching in emerald strips along the ruddy river-banks;
orchards thick with almond and walnut trees; sacred grottoes, into which
the priestesses, seated at the corner of the roads, endeavour to draw the
pilgrims as they proceed on their way to make their prayers to the goddess;¹
sanctuaries and mausolea of Adonis at Yanukh, on the table-land of Mashnaka,
and on the heights of Ghineh.² According to the common belief, the actual
tomb of Adonis was to be found at Byblos itself,³ where the people were
accustomed to assemble twice a year to keep his festivals, which lasted for
several days together.⁴

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