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DOMINO NOSTRO MELCARTHO DEO (tUtelari) TYRI 
MATRIS VOTVM 
FECERVNT ABDASARVS ET FRATER (ABDASARl) 
ASERIM— HAMMARVS 
IS QVI FILIVS (eft) ASERIM-HAMM ARI FILII AB- 
DASARl IIS 
TORTE NAVI G ANTI B VS (vel HVC ET ILLVC INFLEXO 
GVRSV AGITATIS) BENEDICAT^ 
ABDASAR AND HIS BROTHER ASERIM-H AMMAR 
WHO (alfo) IS THE SON OF ASERIM-HAMM AR THE 
SON OF ABDASAR HAVE MADE A VOW TO MEL- 
carthus (or Hercules) the (tutelary) GOD OF 
TYRE THE METROPOLIS IN THEIR TURNINGS 
AND WINDINGS (or IN THEIR CROOKED NAVIGA- 
TION') MAY HE BLESS (or PROSPER) THEM. 
That M. l’Abbe Barthelemy’s explication of the 
infeription here confidered is at lead: fomewhat in- 
volved, from the foregoing remarks, feems fuffici- 
ently clear ; whether or no his obfeurity, or miftakes, 
if any fuch there be, are removed by the illuftration 
now offered, the Royal Society will be the bed; able 
to decide. 
But though M. l’Abbe has perhaps not arrived at 
a complete interpretation of this infeription, he has 
neverthelefs thrown much more light upon it than 
either 
