stumpyjoepete:

oligopsalter:

The disparity between the abundance of cultural influences on which the Phoenicians could have drawn and the small number of motifs and themes actually presented suggests that there was some sort of selection process. If correct, this perhaps indicates that the bowls were specifically designed with the export market in mind, a hypothesis supported by the fact that many of the motifs had no underlying meaning (e.g., the hieroglyphic writing on these bowls is nonsensical.)

it was ever thus

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