Plate LXXVI.

Phoenician Glass ; mainly of a dark purple color. Found at Dali (Idalium) the necropolis
of which contained many thousand tombs. In part of the necropolis the tombs were in two layers,
the upper and most numerous being Greco-Roman. The lower layer was of Phoenician origin,
judging from the character of the pottery found therein, and dated from 800 to 600 B. C. Objects
numbered 2 to 9 came from Phoenician; 1 and 10 to 12 from Greek tombs. The amphorae
are perfect specimens; the handles are of amber-colored glass. There are parts of five other
examples in the collection. The "whorls "(Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9) are of various colors, and
originally were merely stoppers, like the one shown near the middle of the stirring-rod (No. 2).
The collection contains at least nineteen specimens.

1. Needle. Glass. Deep blue. Length 6l/g inches. Diameter y% inch scant.

Shaft is very regular in size. The point tapers for only about one-half inch. The part at
the eye is flattened and pierced with an oval hole.

2. Stirring-rod. Glass. Blue and white. Length 7 inches. Diameter of " whorl "-stop,
ij/8 inch.

The rod is made of glass twisted like a rope, with blue and white strands. At the upper
end the same material is drawn down to make the ring or handle. The other end is a flattened
ball of the same piece. The stop affixed to the shaft (a so-called "whorl") is of green and white
glass, the white marking being in circles. These stirring-rods or dippers were found inside of
glass bottles, and were probably used to extract ointment from them. The collection contains
seven specimens more or less perfect.

3. Amphora. Ointment-bottle. Glass. Black, dark and light blue, yellow and amber.
Length 554 inches. Diameter (body) 2J/2 inches; mouth 1 inch.

One arm is amber-colored and the other is semi-transparent at the edge. The neck and
lower part show bands in dark and light blues and yellow; the body is decorated with a scalloped