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radter in queftion muft be a figure of Koph . The 
legend on the fimilar medals publifhed by (io) Sig. 
Abate Venuti and M. Pellerin renders this indis- 
putably clear. That character therefore will, I 
doubt not, be looked upon by thofe well verfed in 
this branch of literature as a new form of the ele- 
ment Koph. 
The lecond and third letters of our infcription, as 
they appear on the coins communicated to the learned 
world by Sig. Abate Venuti and M. Pellerin, are 
apparently the fame, though on mine they are molt 
certainly diftindt characters ; the firft of them ftrong- 
ly refembling a form of the Punic or Phoenician 
Lamed, and the other being indubitably one of Nun. 
Admit this, and the word may be read kavlin, or 
cavlin; though the Jod, after the Punic and 
Phoenician manner, is here fupprefied. Such a 
l'uppreffion amongft the Phoenicians and Carthaginians 
was by no means uncommon, as I have (n) elfe- 
where inconteftably proved. This being allowed, we 
fhall, perhaps, not find it fo difficult to point out the 
place where all thefe medals were {truck. 
There is a fmall ifiand in the Mediterranean 
only five miles from Malta, denominated antiently 
PATAOr, or gavlos, both by the Greeks and the 
Romans; as we learn (12) from Diodorus Siculus, 
(13) Mela, and (14) Pliny. This ifiand, which is 
(10) Ridolfin. Venut. & Peller. ubi Tup. 
(11) Philofoph. Tranfaft. Vol. Llil. p. 275. 
(12) Diod. Sic. Lib. V. 
(13) Pompon. Mel. De Sit. Crb. Lib. II. c. vii. 
(14) Plin. Nat. Hi/i, Lib. III. c. viii. Lib. V. c. vii. 
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