174 PHILOSOPHICAL TBANSACTION8. [aNNO 1765. 



most immediately after the descent had been made. From this short narrative, 

 extracted from writers of the best reputation and authority, are naturally dedu- 

 cible the following observations. 



" Tamus, or Tam, probably the tam of our inscription, admiral of a Per- 

 sian fleet, and governor of loania, was cut off by Psammitichus, king of Egypt, 

 together with his whole family, except his son Gaus, ;ibout 14 years before the 

 commencement of the Cyprian war. 2. Gaus, the son of Tamus, or Tam, 

 admiral to Cyrus, who was killed on the plains of Cunaxa, actually commanded 

 the Persian fleet, and defeated that of Euagoras near Citium, in the beginning 

 of that war. 3. Part of the combined army of Persians, Amathusians, Citieans, 

 and Solians, was routed by Euagoras, a little before the naval engagement. 4. 

 From what has been intimated by Diodorus Siculus we may infer, that this action 

 certainly happened at no great distance from Citium ; as the battle by sea was 

 fought near that place, and as the fleet and army must have acted in concert, both 

 at the debarkation of the troops, and for some time after that event. 5. It must 

 therefore be allowed probable, that the two Amathusians mentioned in our in- 

 scription, who seem to have been persons of distinction, were killed either in 

 the aforesaid action, or in the naval engagement that immediately followed, or 

 in some other affair that happened much about the same time. 6. The monu- 

 ment recorded by our inscription was probably erected by some of Gaus's family, 

 who might call themselves the house of Tamus, his father, several instances of 

 such an appellation occurring in ancient history. This might have happened 

 after Gaus's death, which was about 1 years posterior to the commencement of 

 the Cyprian expedition. The erection of it certainly ought not to be attributed 

 to Tamus's daughter, as some may perhaps pretend: all that admiral's family, 

 except Gaus, having been cut off" with him, by Psammitichus, king of Egypt, 

 14 years before. 7. From the preceding narrative we may infer, that ancient 

 history, particularly that of Diodorus Siculus, from whence it is chiefly extracted, 

 and our inscription mutually strengthen and support each other. 8. Hence it 

 seems pretty clearly to appear, that the death of Abdasar and Lemb, or Lemeb, 

 the event commemorated by our inscription, preceded the commencement of the 

 Christian aera 386 years; and consequently that this inscription is coeval with 

 those, found likewise in the ruins of Citium, by me some years since explained." 



END OF THE FIFTY-FOUETH VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL. 



/. Of the Pholas Conoides. By J. Parsons, M. D., F. R. S. p. 1. /'o/. LF. 



This shell is pictured by Rumphius, and called pholas lignorum; in Dutch 



hout-mossel, wood muscle, because it is Ibund burrowed in timber. This spe- 



