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} wave already had the honour of laying before the Academy 
‘the infcription which I'difcovered on ‘the theatre,’and which the 
learned profeffor D. Francifco Perez Bayer, the king’s librarian, to 
whom IT communicated it, fuppofes to be Rabbinical Hebrew, and 
not older than the thirteenth century. It-is cut upon a window- 
ftool in a room at the eaft end of the fcena; but upon the moft 
ftri& examination it appears to me:to have been built up with the 
walls of that part of the’ building which, in its ftru@ture, is fimilar 
to the circular part, being in regular courfes of hammered limefione. 
The window-ftool itfelf is only three inches thick, and has the 
appearance of baked clay, being of a yellowith red colour, of the 
confiftence of hard freeftone, and very like the fragments of fome 
alto relievos built up in the wall of a tower, improperly on 
that very account fuppofed to be, and called’ The Tower ‘of 
Hercules, Fac fimiles in yefo of this infcription, and feveral 
in the Celtiberic character, ‘taken off at Saguntum, are now in 
the poffeffion of the Academy, copies and defcriptions of which I 
take this opportunity of laying before them, together with all the 
other remains of ‘inferiptions in ancient Spanifh chara€ters which I 
was able to cue and which have not hitherto been publifhed. 
‘Tue firft fix were communicated to me By D. F. Perez Bayer, 
with the following obfervations : 
No. 1. This infcription ftood fome time in the ancient Caftulo, 
the country of Himilce the wife of Hannibal, new called 
Caldona or Cazlona, and depopulated: It lies between the 
city of Baeza and the town of Linares in Andalufia—In the 
[F 2] year 
