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dueed, and confequently that this paffage and my 
explication of that infcription may be prefumed mu- 
tually to fupport and illuftrate each other* 
IV. 
The firft of the Etrufcan elements, on the reverie 
of my coin, is apparently that letter in the Etrufcan 
alphabet which, in power, is equivalent (8) to F, or 
PH, though the character here differs fomewhat from 
all the forms of that element that have hitherto oc- 
curred to me on the Etrufcan monuments. The 
fecond is either I, or, as I am more inclined to believe, 
V. That it ought rather to be confidered as V, feems 
to me to appear from the obliquity of its pofition, in 
refpeft of the firft letter; which feems to indicate the 
fide of the V next to that letter to have been effaced, 
by the injuries of time. The third is undoubtedly 
the antient Tufcan Q, (9) or R, fomewhat blotted, or 
blurred. The fourth and fifth manifeftly form the 
monogram , or AN, which has not yet occurred 
to me on any other Etrufcan* monument. The fixth, 
feventh, and eighth, y Ih are evidently equivalent 
(8) Anton. Francifc. Gor. Muf. Etrufc. Vol. II. p. 416, 417. . 
Florentine, i 7 37- (9) 'bid. p. 412, 417. 
* From this inftance, as well as others, that might eafily be 
produced, it appears, that the Etrufcans fometimes made ufe of 
monograms, as well as the Greeks, Romans, and Phoenicians. 
As the Romans, therefore, feem to have ufed monograms before 
the commencement of any intercourfe with the Greeks, as is 
rendered probable by the very antient inedited quinarius here re- 
ferred to (fee Tab.. II. n. 3.), which was, as I conceive, ftruck 
before the clofeof the fifth century of Rome ; I am inclined to 
believe, that they borrowed, this mariner of writing from the 
Etiufcans, 
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