“They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.”
They made your planks of pine from Roshan; your deck they made of cypress from the coasts of Cyprus with inlays of ivory, continuing the exhaustive enumeration of construction materials with increasingly exotic and precious resources. The mention of ivory inlays introduces decorative luxury, suggesting that function and beauty were combined in creating a vessel that was both seaworthy and magnificent. The geographical scope—Cyprus, Roshan, Lebanon—illustrates the international trade networks that supplied Tyre's construction.
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