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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Cover has a little discolouration. No notes or highlighting. This is a hardbackbook. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It may be said that a general exhibition on the Phoenicians has never been organized before. Partial initiatives focusing on single aspects or single regions although praiseworthy are certainly not enough to throw light on this great civilization. The continuously growing evidence from archaeological dis- coveries and new studies has revised our understanding of the Phoenicians. Their culture has been rediscovered its importance has become clear and now claims general attention. In these circumstances Palazzo Grassi’s suggestion that I should plan and scientifically supervise an overall exhibition on the Phoenicians appeared to me as a stimulating project although not without difficulties. Two reasons in particular led me to accept the invitation gratefully. Firstly knowing the great and well-deserved prestige acquired by Palazzo Grassi with art exhibitions it was clear that archaeology would find the most advanced starting conditions there. Secondly the invitation was an implicit recognition of the fact that a school of these studies has been promoted in Italy and has achieved internationally accepted leadership in the field so this country might be considered a naturally qualified site for the exhibition (and in fact it has been considered so by our foreign colleagues). From the start one point was clear to me: our effort must not be to organize an exhibition on the Phoenicians but rather the exhibition. (OS)