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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," 

 Avhich 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 dear Sir, — I have discovered at my recent visit to 

 the British Museum : — 



"I. 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 Epagomenae. These mono- 

 grams I would read provisionally by the Egyptian names of 

 the corresponding months. 



