CYPRUS. 77 
of the Macedonian empire'. A ram is repre- chap. 
seated couched in the front. The obverse ^' > 
side exhibits, within an indented square, a rosary 
or circle of beads, to which a cross is attached ". 
Of these rosaries, and this appendage, as sym- 
bols, (explained by converted heathens at the 
destruction of the temple of Serapis\) having- 
in a former publication been explicit*, it is not 
now necessary to expatiate. That the soul's 
immortality was alluded to, is a fact capable of 
the strictest demonstration*. The Consul of 
Berytns also presented to the author a mag- 
nificent silver tetradrachm of Tyre, w^ith the Tetra- 
drachm of 
inscription " of • tyre • holy • and • inviolate-" Tyre. 
TYPOYIEPAZKAIAZYAOY 
and also this monogram, marking the year when 
it was struck; namely, 183 of the Seleucidan 
£era: 
f? 
(1) Of tliis opinion is tliat distinguished antiquary, R. P. Knight, Esq. 
ajuthor of some of the most learned dissertations in our language. 
(2) See the Vignette to this Chapter. 
(3) Socrates Scholasticus, lib. v. c. 17. 
(4) See " Greek Marbles," p. 78. 
(5) Ibid. A most satisfactory proof, not only of the Phoenician origin 
of thhviedal, but of its relationship to Cilium, is aflbrded by the Citiean 
Inscriptions published by Pococke, (Description of the East, vol. II. 
p. 213.) wherein more than one instance occurs of the introduction of 
the identical <iymbol, seen upon its obverse side. 
