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bols of the Tyrfenian nation, with which the people 
of it were very well pleafed. 
The forms of the letters on this medal are exadtlv 
the fame with thofe of the correfpondent elements 
uied in Umbria and the Proper Etruria, and apparently 
anfwer to the Roman letters fai. They are fuffici- 
ently clear and diftindt, having differed little from 
the injuries of time. The word they reprefent, in 
eonformity to the Etrufcan (12) manner, points out 
to us fome remarkable town. This may be certainly 
evinced from the infcriptions preferved on other 
Etrufcan coins. Now to what town can this word 
be fuppofed as a proper name to refer, but to Faffulte 
in the Proper Etruria ? That city flood at the foot of 
the Apennines, and was one of the mod (13) antient, 
as well as the mod confiderable, towns of Etruria. 
The Greeks wrote the name of it (14) OAIZOTAAI 
anc ^ ( 1 5 ) ^AISOA A, the earlier Latins (16) fais vlai. 
Hence it fltotiid feem to appear, that this valuable Etrufcan coin 
has never yet been publiihed, at leaf! with a fufficient degree of 
exadtnefs. I therefore judged it would be by no means improper 
to fend the Society a draught of it, as well as one of the Athe- 
nian tetradrachm here mentioned, taken with the utmoft ac- 
curacy, and fuch as may be entirely depended upon. 
V id. Annib. degl. Abat. Olivier, ubi fup. p, 43. 
(12) Anton. Franc i lev Gor. ubi fup. p. 422-431. Joan. Baptifr*. 
Pafler. Pifaurenf. De Num. Etrufc. Pajlanor. DiJJcrtat. Vid. 
Symbol. Litterar. Vol. II. p. 13-35. Florentiie, 1748. 
(13) Tho. Dempft. De Etrur. Regain, iv. c. xix. & alibi, 
FJ orentire, 1724. 
(14) Appian. Alexandria De Bell . Civil. Lib. II. p. 7x1. Am- 
ftel. 1670. Dio, Lib. xxxvn. 
(15) Polyb. Hijlor . Lib. II. c. 25. p. 158. Amidol. 1670. 
( ib) Enn. h Lucret. paflim. Virg. Job. NicoJ. Func.'Marbur- 
geni. De Adolefcent. Latin, Ling, Era flat, p, 72 c.’ Martourei 
Cattorum, 1723. 5 * 
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