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no means uncommon amongft the Phoenicians, as I 
have : el fe where (38) inconteftably proved. 
If the interpretation of this fhort infcription now 
laid down fhould meet with the approbation of the 
learned, it would bring no fmall acceflion of ftrength 
to the notion here advanced. It would alfo evince, 
in conjunction with what has been offered, beyond 
the poffibility of a doubt, that inferiptions of very 
different kinds have been handed down to us by this 
fpecies of coins. 
That medals fhould have been emitted from the 
mint at Tarfus with Phoenician letters upon them, 
to thofe verfed in this branch of literature can be 
no matter of furprize. It has been proved, that 
fuch pieces as that now in view were (39) If ruck 
by the Phoenicians, fome of whom were undoubtedly 
fettled at Tarfus, and confequently ought to be 
deemed Phoenician, not Punic, coins. 
As the medal itfelf, according to the gentleman who 
purchafed it in the Raff, feemsto have been found either 
in the neighbourhood of Plems, formerly denominated 
Emefa (40), or fomewhere near Efbele, or Gibele, 
the Byblus (41) of the antients, and confequently at 
no very great didance from the borders of Cilicia 5 
my explication of it may podibly, I would flatter 
myfelf, prove not altogether unfatisfadtory to tile- 
learned. 
To what has been here advanced fome may per- 
haps objedf, that we can difeover little of the Par- 
(38) Philofopb. Tran fa cl. Voi. L1V. p. 419. 
(39) Peller. ubi fup. Tom. Troif. p. 162, 163. 
(■40) Poc. Obfrvat, on Syria, p, 98. 
(41) Id. ibid. 
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