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pides, and Agathon, in Athensus, an obliquated 
trident. That infcription is formed of the very fame 
letters with thofe that conditute the legend I am con- 
lidering, and confequently will admit of the fame 
interpretation. Nor can this be matter of furprize 
to thofe who confider, not only that the firft figure 
of the Epjihn was (36) borrowed from the 
earlier Phoenicians, but likewife that the later form 
of that element, which was alfo fufhciently ancient, 
as I have here inconteftably proved, might likewife 
have been deduced from a later figure of the Phoe- 
nician, or Punic, He^ in a country chiefly occupied 
by the Greeks (37), Phoenicians, and Carthaginiansj 
for a very confiderable period. And that this was 
really the cafe, from the legend on the reverfe of the 
coin of which I am now attempting an interpretation, 
feems abundantly clear. The Prince di Torremuzza 
has likewife (38) rendered the antiquity of this form 
of the Phoenician, or Punic, He inconteflable. All 
which confiderations being maturely weighed, and 
due attention- given to the medals here defcribed j the 
power of the third element of the legend, or infcrip- 
tion, before me, will appear, I would flatter myfelf,. 
to be fufHciently afeertained. 
(36) Edm. Cliifliul. Irifcript. Sig. Sig. Haverc. ubi fup. 
(37) Elerodot:. 'Ehucyd. Polyb. Diod. Sic. Liv. Strab. Orof. 
Zonar. &c. 
(38) Prolegom. p. 39, 40. From the Siculo-Punic medals 
mentioned in this paper, as well as many others, it feems clearly 
to appear, that the. [ refix H vvas never annexed to the u'ord 
AM, POPVLVS, on the Siculo-Punic coins, as M. Barchelemy 
has been plcafed to affert, but to the proper name of the place 
immediately following it. This, if allowed, mufl be decifivc in fa- 
vour of what I have formerly advanced, relative to the power of 
the charafier taken by that learned antiquary for He^ but by me 
for Mem. Philojapb. PrewUiSf. Vol. X.IV. p. 397. 
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