286 ([return])
[ Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 239. There are representations of the Buccunum in Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusks, vol. iv. pl. cii. Nos. 1, 2, 3.]
287 ([return])
[ Kenrick, p. 239.]
288 ([return])
[ Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 51.]
289 ([return])
[ Wilksinson, in Rawlinson’s Herodotus, ii. 347, note 2.]
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[ Canon Tristram writs: “Among the rubbish thrown out in the excavations made at Tyre were numerous fragments of glass, and whole ‘kitchen middens’ of shells, crushed and broken, the owners of which had once supplied the famous Tyrian purple dye. All these shells were of one species, the Murex brandaris” (Land of Israel, p. 51).]