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στύραξ is also a Semitic word; it is translated ‘balm’ Gen. xliii. 11. It was an inferior kind of incense and grew especially in Syria.

For winged serpents cf. ii. 75. 1; H. here may be adding an Egyptian touch to his Phoenician information. For an expedition to Punt, the land of spices, under the eighteenth dynasty cf. R. of P.1 x. 11, and Brugsch, i. 352 seq.

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