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Carlifl e, who was fo good as to trail fm it it to me at 
Oxford. The infcription has been mentioned, but not 
explained, by M. l’Abbe Barthelemy in the Journal 
des S$avans , who has deduced a new Phoenician al- 
phabet from it ; though he feems to doubt whether 
any of the tranfcripts that had appeared, at leaft any 
of thofe he had feen, agreed perfectly in all particu- 
lars with the autograph itfelf. However, from the 
known accuracy of Sig. Abate Venuti, I think we 
may venture to fuppofe the copy now fent you to be 
in the main fufficiently exadh I fhall therefore, at the 
requeft of feveral friends, fubmit to the confideration 
of the Royal Society a few curfory remarks upon this 
curious monument of antiquity ; efpecially, as it has 
not yet in a proper manner been communicated to 
the learned world. 
L 
The three firft letters undoubtedly form the He- 
brew word Tin, PENETRALE, CONCLAVE, INTI- 
mvs R ecessvs, &c. for a farther account of which, 
recourfe may be had to the 2 Hebrew lexicographers. 
The next two elements feem to be Beth and Thau , 
of which is compofed the Phoenician word n3, pro- 
bably the fame with the Plebrew domvs • as 
the Phoenicians not feldom omitted, or fuppreffed, the 
letter Jod. This moil evidently appears from CDTf, 
pv, onv, &c. for pn% mm, cm, &c. ex- 
1 Journal des Sfavans, Suite de Decembre 1761. p. 82, 8?, 
84. A Amfterdam, 1761. 
Val. Schind. Jo. Buxtorf. Chriftian. Stock. Jo. Leonhard. 
Reckenberg. aliique plur. lexicograph. Hebr. 
O 0 2 hibited 
