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orPoenician Samech (6), nearly as it appears In the fa- 
mous Maltefe infcription, and not unlike the form of 
that element exhibited by oneof thofe found at Citium, 
now in the Bodleian Library, Oxon. The fourth 
and hxth are fo (7) like the Punic and Phoenician 
Ghimel that they cannot well pafs for any other ele->- 
ment. The fifth is manifefUy Hheth (8), though it 
fee ms to have fomewhat fuffered from the injuries'of 
time. The feventh (9) greatly refembles the -mod: 
common figure of .and therefore we cannot be 
much miftaken if we take it for that letter^.. The 
powers of the Punic charadfers forming the in- 
icription ffanding thus, we may, I conceive, ^ read the 
whole AM SEGHEGT, or SEGEGTH, which is 
but a fmall variation from the word SEGESTE, or 
SEGESTA, the Greek and Latin name (i o) of a con- 
liderable maritime city of -Sicily, not far from Eryx, 
where money was coined, after the Greeks (t i) had 
pofTeffed thcmfelves of the place. The medal there- 
fore adorned with this minute Punic., infeription may, 
without any impropriety, be fuppofed to have been 
emitted from the mint at Segefta, as the Punic words, 
AM SEGHEGT, or SEGEGTH, POPVLVS 
SEGESTANVS, appear upon it, when the Cartha- 
(6) Fhilcfoph. Tranfa^, ubi fup. VoJ. LIV. Tab. xxii. p. 
294* Memoir, de Litterot, ubi fup. 
(7) Phibjoph. Tranfadi. ubi fup. I'ab. xxiv. p. 408, '4C9. 
(8) . Philofoph. TrcinjaSi, ubi fup. p. 404. & Tab. xxiv. 
{9) Philojoph, Tranjadl, Vo!. LIV, Tab. xi. p. qg. & Tab. 
xxiv. p 404. 
(10) Chrift. Cellar. Notit. Orb. Aniiq^u. Lib. II. c, xii. p, 
397, 398. 
ril. Parut. La Sul/, 'Num, in Nuir.di Segeft, 
ginians 
