Notes: 6)

Lucas (Materials, p. 351) asserts that turpentine
and linseed oil were not used for painting during
the period in question, even though they were
available for other uses. However, this is not 
conclusive evidence, since neither of these two
substances, had it been used in antiquity, would
necessarily have left traces detectable today.
Turpentine was known in Greece in Classical
times, if not earlier, while linseed oil was one
of Egypt's main products, so the probability
of its use in the Punic wax mixture is not at all
 remote.