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city actually ftyled on feveral Tyrian coins. This 
fenfe is perfectly confonant to the tenor of the in- 
fcription, and will therefore, I fatter myfelf, be rea- 
dily admitted by (10) M. l’Abbe. 
But to put the point here infilled on even beyond 
the poflibility of a doubt, I fliall beg leave farther 
to obferve, that I have two of thofe Phoenician coins 
( 1 1) attributed by M. l’Abbe to the city of Marathus ; 
one of which exhibits the firft letter Mem as it (lands 
in his alphabet, ( ) and the other exactly as he 
has prefented to our view the pretended form (*ff) of 
He. Such demonftration as this mud: convince every 
one, that is not refolved to be proof againft convidtion, 
and be allowed abfolutely decifive in this affair. 
V. 
Though M. l'Abbe has not inferted the lad: letter 
of the word in the beginning of the fecond 
line, that element was neverthelefs mod: certainly 
Van. This is fufficiently manifefl from P. Lupi’s (12) 
copy, as well as from the vacant fpace after Daleth , 
which is capable of containing only a (ingle letter, 
and that can be no other than Van. Befides, 
uDITOb BENEDICAT ILLIS* not NOBIS, MAY HE 
bless, or prosper, them, not us, the laft word 
of the infcription, lets this point in the cleared: light. 
The next word but one, ’HNh has been rendered by 
M. l’Abbe Barthelemy et frater mevs, though 
ft frater eivs muft be allowed much more con- 
(10) 'Journal des Scavatis, Aout 1760. p. 267-271. 
(11) ibiJ . p. 275. 
( 12) Gor. 6 c Lup. ubi fup. 
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