duced, and confequenily that this parTage and my 

 explication of that infcription may be prefumed mu- 

 tually to fupportand illuilrate each other. 



IT. 



The fir/t of the Etrufcan elements, on the reverfe 

 of my. coin, ^), is apparently that letter in the Etrufcan 

 alphabet which, in power, is equivalent (8) to F, or 

 PH, though the character here differs fomewhat from 

 all the forms of that element that have hitherto oc- 

 curred to me on the Etrufcan monuments. The 

 fecond is either I, or, as I am more inclined to believe, 

 Y. That it ought rather to be confidered as V, feems 

 to me to appear from the obliquity of its pofition,.. in 

 refpect of the firft letter ; which feems to indicate the 

 fide of the V next to that letter to have been effaced, 

 by the injuries of time. The third is undoubtedly 

 the antient Tufcan q, (9) or R, fomewhat blotted, or, 

 blurred. The fourth and fifth manifeftly form the 

 monogram |^«\, or AN, which has not yet occurred^ 

 to me on any other Etrufcan* monument* The fixth, . 

 feventh,. and eighth, y U, are evidently equivalent 



(8) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf. Etrufc. Vol. IL p. 416, 417, . 



Fiorentias, 1737. (9) Id. ibid. p. 412, 417. 



* From this inflance, as well as others, that might eafily be 



produced, it appears, that the Etrufcans fometimes made ufe of 



monograms, as well as the Greeks, Romans, and Phoenicians. . 



As the Romans, therefore,, feem to have ufed monograms before 



the commencement of any intercourfe with the Greeks, as is. 



rendered probable by the very antient inedited quinarius here re- 

 , ferred to (fee Tab. II. n. 3.), which was, as I conceive, ftruck 

 . before the clofe of the fifth century of Rome ; I am inclined to . 



believe, that they borrowed this manner of writing from, the 



Etrufcans, 



(10.) to 



