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COMMUNICATIONS 



TO THE 



MONTHLY MEETINGS 

 1856. 



March. — The Rev. Thomas Myers read a paper on the Rev. 



Charles Forster's Decipherments of some Phoenician Inscriptions. 

 The design of the paper was to show that Mr. Forster's decipherment 

 and interpretation of these inscriptions were more correct than those 

 of Gesenius and other Oriental scholars. 



The Rev. John Kenrick exhibited a photographic delineation of 

 the sculpture on the Sarcophagus of the Sidonian King, Asmunezer, 

 (see Report for 1855, p. 23,) which he had received from Mr. Fox, 

 of Trebah, near Falmouth. The annexed wood-cut will show the 

 close resemblance of this relic of Phoenician sculpture to the style of 

 Egyptian art. 



