53-i . Literary Intelligence, 8fe. [No. 5, 



derivative altered and elaborated through Phoenician influences, such 

 as might have been anticipated to have accompanied the apparent 

 course of the Arian letters themselves. This may be a curious ques- 

 tion for future investigation and illustration ; at present, it is suffi- 

 cient to say, that the three Arian figures, similar to our English 3, 

 constitute as a total, the sum of six tens, while the isolated c, at the 

 end of the row of figures, completes the number of 70, to which we 

 have to add the eight, already noticed under the units — making the 

 complete date of the plate the year 78. 



In conclusion I may notice, that Mr. Dowson concurs in Colonel 

 Cunningham's reading of the Macedonian months ! 



Four Q Q 



Ten H.n _». J£ 



These are run either tnus f° r ^0 or thus for " [ 60 



n n rn 



nnnj 

 nnnn) 

 u 5 " 



42 



ioo = 9 



Gesenius p. 87 Phoenician Numbers ; ordinary 10 is — but, alia figura itidem 

 denarium immerum designans est hsec semilunaris ^ J 9 

 See also Juda's "La langue Pbenicienne," p. 84. 



