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RVM POPVLVS, as we may find rendered incon- 
tefiable by otfier (26) fimilar coins. 
In Hebrew tlie prefix n is not feldom added to the 
(27) beginning of the proper names of provinces, 
cities, and towns. So AND VIEW- 
ED AI. Jehof. vii. 2. ‘7:1b JlH IV |D> FROM 
SHITTIM TO GILGAL. Mich. vi. 5. 
AND ALL THE CITIES OF GILE- 
AD. Jehof. xiii. 25. To which I could add many 
more inftances of the fame mode of expreffion, that 
might, with equal facility, be produced. As the 
Punic and Phoenician languages therefore (28) a- 
greed in mcfi: points with the Hebrew, we may na- 
turally fuppofe the Phoenician, or Carthaginian, in- 
habitants of Menae to have imprefled the words 
n^nisn oy, AM HAMMENOTH, upon their 
moft ancient coins.^ 
The medal, which has conveyed down to us this 
infcription, through fuch a feries of ages, is of the 
tetradrachmal form, and of a very confiderable anti- 
quity. It has a place afiigned it in the (29) very 
valuable cabinet of the Prince di Torremuzza, 
tliough he has not favoured us with a draught of it. 
On one fide it exhibits the head of a woman, god- 
defs, or tutelary deity of the place where it was 
flruck, with three fillies fporting round it and on 
{26) Phil. T'ravf Mem. de Litterat, Aldret. Laftanof, 
Peller. ubi fup. 
(27) Johan, Buxtorf. Thtfaur. Grammat. Ling, Sau^. llebr, 
p. 385. Bafilex, 
(28) Sam. Bochart. Chan. lib. II. r. i. Philofoph. Tranjadl, 
Vol. LIII. p. 292. 6c Vol. LIV. p. 134. 
(29) S/f/ 7 . et objacent. Infular. vctcr. infeript, nov. colledl. 
.'laU', .vx, p. 293. Panomii, 1769. 
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