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Caylus’s copy was fent him) as it appears on my 
Punic and Phoenician coins. 
IV. 
The eighteenth letter of the firft line of this in- 
fcription is not He , as M. l’Abbe fuppofes, but Mem. 
This is rendered indifputable by the form of the ele- 
ment itfelf, as well as by the tenor of the infcrip- 
tion. That the form of the element perfectly re- 
fembles, or rather is altogether the fame with, that 
of Mem , is fufficiently evident from M. l’Abbe s own 
plate, and even more fo from the copy communicat- 
ed to Sig. Gori by P. Lupi. And with regard to the 
tenor of the infcription, I fhall not fcruple to affirm, 
that this abfolutely requires the letter to be Mem , and 
not He. For other wife the word NT^, tzora, or 
tzvra, muft denote Tyre; whereas the name of 
that city in Syriac, fuppofed by M. l’Abbe to be 
the language of the infcription, as well as Chaldee, 
Hebrew, Samaritan, and Arabic, is tzor, or 
tzvr. To which we may add, that the four laft 
elements of this line cannot form the word nun, 
hoc votvm, this vow, as M. l’Abbe aflerts, be- 
caufe that would be neither Syriac nor fenfe ; as the 
monument could not with any manner of propriety 
be termed a vow, and confequently could not be 
tranfmitted down to future ages under the denomi- 
nation of this vow. It was not a vow, but 
eredted in purfuance of a vow. The eighteenth 
and the three preceding letters then form the words 
DN Ti, tyrvs mater, or rather here tyri ma- 
tris, of tyre the metropolis, as we find that 
