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from that at AiTorus, the fame element being like- 
wife not feldom equivalent to the Latin S. On ano- 
ther of my Siculo-Punic medals, that letter fome- 
what refembles the Kappa of the Greeks. Ad- 
mitting^ the fecond element to be Tzade, as I am 
fully convinced it is, both assorvs and catana 
may, with (37) great propriety, be confidered as Punic 
proper names. 
For the farther illuftration of what has been here 
advanced, it may not be improper to exhibit draughts 
of the Sicilian medals juft delcribed, as well as of 
feveral others, now in my pofteffion, adorned with 
Punic characters. From thefe (Tab. XXIII.), at 
firft light, will be deducible a Siculo-Punic alphabet 
[Tab. XXIV.] j which, though incomplete, may, 
perhaps, not prove unacceptable to the learned. 
Before I conclude my remarks on the Siculo-Punic 
coins, publifhed by M. l’Abbe, l muft beg leave to 
repeat, that only two of them, which were ftruck 
at Menae,. are produced, in order to evince the 
reality of his form of He and that he has himfelf 
allovved this character, on one of thofe medals, 
(which conceffion will likewife extend to that on the 
other, as has been already obferved) to be as pro- 
perly expreffive of Mem as of He. I fay, his form 
of He ; becaufe I cannot help taking the character he 
denominates He for Mem , as it fo nearly refembles 
the common and ufual form of that element, and 
as the fenfe it communicates even here, fuppofing it 
Mem, is fo perfectly confonant to the tenor of fuch 
infcriptions. This will be readily admitted by every 
(37) Val. Schind. Lex, Pentaglot. p. 113, u 4 ,641. 
Hanoviae, 1612. 
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