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almost as distinctly preserved as if they had been recently 
executed. ‘There were two inscriptions on the stone which 
contained the crosses. One exhibited the name “ Decedda,” 
which was as plainly written as it could possibly be. It 
struck him as worthy of notice, that this identical name oc- 
curred upon one of the seven stones in the cave of Dunloe, 
which had been taken to be a pagan sepulchre. Upon the 
other edge of the stone was almost the whole of another name, 
which belonged to the Christian time. The letters formed the 
word Catufi, and he found that Cathubius was the name of 
an abbot, whose death was recorded in the Annals of the Four 
Masters as having occurred in the year 554. 
The following communication from the Rev. Dr. Hincks, 
dated 7th March, 1853, was read by the Secretary :— 
‘¢ My pear Sir,—I have discovered at my recent visit to 
the British Museum :— 
“<1. Two fragments of syllabariums of a similar nature to 
that which I described in a note to my recent Paper (Trans- 
actions, vol. xxii. P. L., p. 342). One of these is in excellent 
preservation. 
*¢2. I obtained the following complete list of the mono- 
grams, in their proper order, representing the twelve Assyrian 
months of thirty days and the Epagomene. These mono- 
grams I would read provisionally by the Egyptian names of 
the corresponding months. 
