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mount Amanus and the borders of Cilicia. This, 
in conjunction with what has been already offered in 
fupport of my prefent opinion, will amount to the 
ftrongeft preemption, if not an irrefragable proof, 
that the piece in queftion was ftruck at Tarfus. The 
late Mr. Arthur Pullinger fhewed me two fimilar 
coins, found near the place juft mentioned, which 
he purchafed at Aleppo, and brought with him to 
England out of the Eaft. 
That the Phoenician name tarz fhould have 
anfwered to the Greek TAPIOS, and the Latin 
Tarsus, can be no matter of furprize to any perfon 
at all verfed in oriental literature. For ’tis too well 
known to hand in need of a proof, that OS is a pure 
Greek termination, and vs a Latin one, fuperadded 
to the Phoenician word. And that the Greeks (20) 
not infrequently converted Zain into Sigma, as the 
Latins did into S, is a molf obvious truth. Many 
inftances of fuch converiions, in oriental names 
adopted by thofe nations, might, with the utmoft fa- 
cility, be produced, 
III. 
With regard to the characters on the reverfe, their 
powers feern fufficiently deducible from other monu- 
ments heretofore explained. The fir ft and fifth will 
undoubtedly be taken for Mem. The fecond points 
plainly at Zain. The third will be looked upon* 
either as Daletb , Caph, or Refch ; though, if the 
fenfe be duly attended to, I think we muff pro- 
(20) Boch. Chan. Lib. 1 . c. xxvii p. 559. c. vi. p. 390. & 
alib. Francof. ad Mcen. 1681. The Arabs, after the conquc-ft . 
of Syria, adopted the Greek, or Latin, name; which is evi- 
dently not fo antient as the Phoenician Hi"!, tarz, or tars. 
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