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and pofition, as well as from the term that imme- 
diately follows it, is inconteftably clear. The two 
words forming the fir ft line of the infcription are 
apparently HDVD, lapis sepvlchralis re- 
CIMT, THE TOMB-STONE OF REKIM, Or REKEM, 
the latter of which is (95) a Biblical proper name. 
The third of the proper names preferved by this 
infcription, abdasar, occurs on the Oxford and 
Maltcfe ftones, and has been already explained ; 
but the others I remember not elfewhere to have 
feen, nor are they, as I apprehend, to be met with 
in any antient author. The perfons that bore them 
were probably killed in the a&ion near Citium, 
mentioned by Diodorus Siculus, referred to on a 
fimilar occafion in thefe remarks, and buried in one 
grave. That atftion, as I have formerly obferved, 
preceded the commencement of the Chriftian aera 
about 386 years. 
The fubftantive in the beginning of a fen- 
tence, immediately preceding the proper name of a 
man, not followed by the term p, ben, son, and 
the father’s name, appears in this fepulchral infcrip- 
tion, that has more than one perfon for its objecft. 
This word alfo occurs, attended by the very fame 
circumftances, in the firft line of our Oxford infcrip- 
tion. Now in the Citiean monument before me it 
is undoubtedly equivalent to the Latin lapis sepvl- 
chralis, and the Englifh tomb-stone. Why 
then fhould it not have the fame fignification afftgned 
it in the other ? Moft certainly it fhould. Can any 
thing therefore be more forced and unnatural than 
M. l’Abbe Barthelemy’s notion of this term in the 
f95) Num, XXXI. 8. 
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