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ernor of Pompeium, the mayor or city commander, who caused 

 the building of a temple of El in Pompeii. This is confirmed by 

 the vases (asup, G. -^. p. 98, No. 511 ; R. S. iii. 26), involving 

 the word c&Mi\\, -\Vj. IIT (gur), hospitium, which are offered to 

 the God. The same oblations will be seen on obelisks for the 

 purpose of indicating that the respective kings had built tem- 

 ples. See H. O. and the writer's " Theologische Schriften," 

 Leipz. 1855. 



c. Since the Ura^us-snake, evKtopi, on the front of persons 

 expresses the word (R)o^^po, xufjco^, it is self-evident that the 

 figures c and e must be I'oyal persons. This is confirmed by the 

 shepherd pedum, very often expressed by the letters 6^ (fitoR ire, 

 bac-ulus ; PL xiii. 167, xiv. 335), and, being the usual insigne of 

 Osiris, meaning the regent (fio^R), as Josephus informs us. The 

 three boundary-stones, offered by Vespasian, express the word 

 o-roT, Tin (hod), valor. For the same singular representation of 

 the boundary-stones signify the plural termination m (wot). See 

 Nos. 62, 135, 335. Accordingly, it was the emperor who gave 

 the money for building the temple of El in Pompeium. 



d. The female figure after Vespasian, holding a papyrus-stalk, 

 and ornamented with the solar-corned disk, are easily under- 

 stood ; for the papyrus oslwav., ndJ (gome), expresses the word 

 ya/ie-TTJ, the emperor's consort (G.^. p. 70, No. 350), and the 

 solar disk {^r, G.j^. p. 33, No. 7) with the horns (tcvh, G. M. 

 p. 57, No. 320) furnish the v\'ord (R)oirpoT, queen. Hence the 

 astronomical monuments express very often the moon by the 

 horned disk, i.e. the Hebrew DVX'H n^^ID (melecheth hashamaim), 

 the queen of the heavens. 



e. Obviously Titus, because he bears the royal insigne on the 

 front, together with the royal crown and the sceptre in his hand, 

 as we have seen, signifying the royal power. 



/". The figure of a boy, uj"P'i ancient xopo^, of course, signifies 

 the youngest son, the baby of the emperor, namely, Domitian. 

 Since the latter was born in the year 50 A.c, he was, when Ves- 

 pasian commenced to reign in Rome in the year 71 a.c, 20 years 

 old. Hence we conclude that the Pompeian Tablet originated 

 in a year in which Domitian was still in his nonage, not yet 22 

 years old. Moreover, the anti-emperor Sabinus, suppressed in 

 71 A.c, and the building of the Colosseum in 72 a.c being men- 



