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to our view. The other part of the anchor and the 
fifh appertaining to it have been defaced, by the in- 
juries of time i as we may colled: from a fimilar 
flips uncialis formerly publifhed by F. Montfaucon, 
then in the cabinet of the Marfhal d’Eftrees. A 
fingle globule, or uncial mark, determining the 
weight, or value, of the piece, is alfo vifible here. 
The workmanship is fomewhat rude, and different 
from that of the Romans. The tyrfo feems to 
allude to the origin and moft antient name of the 
Etrufcans, who were called Tyrfenians by the Greek 
writers that flourifhed before Polybius (io). That 
filh not feldom ( 1 1 ) occurs on the Etrufcan coins. It 
is thought to have been one of the distinguishing Sym- 
(9) Montfauc. Supplem. de V Anti quit. Expliqu. Tom. III. 
Liv. iv. c. 6. PI. 48. p. 106. A Paris, 1724. 
( 10) Bach. Chan. Lib. I. c. xxxiii. p. 647, 648. Francofurti 
ad Moenum, 1 68 r . Phil. Bonarot. Ad Monument. Etrufc. Ex- 
plicat. iff Conjeft. § xxxvm. p. 80. Florentine, 1726. Anton. 
Francifc. Gor. Muf. Etrufc. Vol. II. p. 421. Florentine, 
1 7 37 * 
(11) Phil. Bonarot. ubi Tup. § xxxviii. Ant. Fran. Gor. ubi 
fup. p. 421. I have an exceeding fine Etrufcan weight, or brafs 
medal, of Volterra, adorned with the head of Janus on one 
fide, done after the Etrufcan manner ; and on the reverfe with a 
tyrfo, the obelus, or mark of the as, and feven Etrufcan let- 
ters, forming the word velithera, or velitera, the old Etruf- 
can name of Volterra, one of the moft antient cities of Tufcany. 
The piece is in the fmeft confervation, and weighs four ounces, 
fifteen penny weights, and eighteen grains. 
It is farther remarkable for a figure of the a, which I never met 
with, before this weight fell into my hands, upon any of the Etrufcan 
remains of antiquity. One of the fides of that element here is 
much fhorter than the other, not unlike the form of the Greek 
Alpha exhibited by fome of the earlieft Athenian tetradrachms, 
particularly one in my pofteflion, the moft antient of any that I 
.have hitherto feen. 
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