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in antient hiftory. This might have happened after 
Gaiis’s death, which was about two years poftericrr 
to the commencement of the Cyprian expedition. 
The ere&ion of it certainly ought not to be attri- 
buted to Tamus’s daughter, as fome may perhaps 
pretend ; all that admiral’s family, except Gaus, 
having been cut off with him, (89) by Pfammiti- 
chus, king of Egypt, fourteen years before. 
7. From the preceding narrative we may infer, 
that antient hiflory, particularly that of Diodorus 
Siculus, from whence it is chiefly extracted, and our 
infcription mutually ftrengthen and fupport each 
other. 
8 . Hence it feems pretty clearly to appear, that 
the death of Abdafar and Lemb, or Lemeb, the 
event commemorated by our infcription, preceded 
the commencement of the Chriftian aera 386 years; 
and confequently that this infcription is coeval with 
thole, found likewife in the ruins of Citium, by me 
lome years fince explained. 
Many things relative to this infcription, for want 
of room, I am obliged at prefent to fuperfede; but 
thefe, as well as leveral other points flightly touched 
upon here, may perhaps meet with a more particular 
difculfion, in another piece upon the fame fubjedt ; 
which, if God grants me life and health, will foon 
be communicated to the learned world. 
As the autograph of the fourth infcription [Tab. 
XXVI.] does not now exift, having been deftroyed by 
Bekir,bafhawof Cyprus, about the year 1749; we can- 
not arrive at any degree of certainty, in relation to the 
(89) Diod. Sic. Bibl. HiJl . Lib. XIV. p. 415. 
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