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been taken than usual with the version given 

 above. It appears from a memorandum of 

 Mr. DanielPs, that the inscription is complete 

 at the end, and that the breaks in the second 

 and fifth lines are caused by flaws in the stone, 

 in which no letters are lost. 



The forms of several of the letters are unusual, 

 and there are also peculiarities in the ortho- 

 graphy, the letter & being used in the first 

 word instead of W, of which we have another 

 instance in No. 31 ; and the same letter being 

 employed in the dative, Poreuemetewa, is also 

 peculiar. We might attach more importance to 

 these variations if the copy of the inscription 

 were more perfect. 



The second word had, if we may trust the 

 copy, four letters, and ended in ze ; its meaning 

 is obviously tomb or monument. There is no 

 word in any other inscription which exactly 

 fulfils these conditions; but below the battle- 

 scene, No. 22, we probably have fazeue, which 

 may be an oblique case of faze, and in erafazeya, 

 a monument or tomb, we have a compound word 

 containing the same root. 



Nune must be some term of relationship ; it is 

 used in a similar manner in other inscriptions. 



