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1 8. If what has been here advanced ftiould meet 
with the approbation of the Royal Society, the fol- 
lowing Latin and Englifti verfions of this infcrip- 
tion, which has fo well efcaped the injuries of time, 
may not prove unacceptable to the learned. 
Tmyn— -in p DDDnny p notnny 
N'7D tz)hy^ ♦nro— nna cn^y ntw. n *»n no 1 ? 
-pinny p cwn nn mn Dn-nn^ to 
Marmor Abdasari filii Abdesasimi filii 
Hhvri — Lapis sepvlchralis Lembi (vel Le- 
MEBl) qvi VIXIT VICENOS ANNOS SECVLI DO- 
LORIS (l. e. AiTATIS five VITiE INFELICITER 
ACT A:) DESCENDVNT INAiTERNVM IN CARCE- 
R e M lepulchri mortvi hi Amathvntis (leu 
potius occisi hi Amathvsii) — Monvmentvm 
strvctvra eft domvs (vel familia*) Tam.i 
FILII AbdEMELECI. ' 
The marble (or marble tomb-stone) of 
Abdasar the son of Abdesasim the son 
OF Hhur (or Hur)— The sepulchral stone 
0i ' Lemb ^ or Lemeb) who lived twenty 
fears in trouble and sorrow — Thefe 
Amathusians who were slain are gone 
or ever jo i he prison of the grave The 
monument was erected by the house of 
i am vs (or Tam) the son of Abdemelec. 
Hence it feems to appear, that the names of two 
Amathulians, probably of the firft dirtindtion, one 
of whom was unfortunate enough, have been handed 
down 
