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learned friend of the author', for thev are chap. 
VII 
evidently the first five letters of the v^rord 
CEBACTON. The Praefect's name, at the be- 
ginning of the fourth line, was supposed^ to be 
Ilof^'?njiog ; but the third letter is found to be C, 
and not M, and it was thus read by Pococke, 
many years before*. Having therefore noc, 
we may read noCTOMOC. This name is found in 
Gruter, in several instances, written Postumus^. 
It occurs in an inscription discovered upon an 
edifice which contains the famous Zodiac at 
Dendera in IJppei' Egypt\ as the name of a 
Prsefect who lived under Augustus. We have, 
moreover, in the Dendera Inscription, a sort of 
formulciy enabling us to supply the last line, 
which is entirely wanted. We there read tlie 
(3) The Rev. George Adam Browne, M.A. Fellow oi Trinity College, 
Camhridiii , the intimate friend of the late Professor Posow, and of 
Dr. Raine, iate of the Charier House, Mr. Browne also proposed the 
substitution of nosrofcos for Ho/i-r, in the fourth line. 
(4) See Paper mentioned in Note (2). 
(5) See Pococke's copy of the Inscription. Description of the East, 
vol. I. />. 8. IVoie (d). Land. 1743. 
(6) See Gruter. Inscvipt. 113. 1.— 173. 10, &c. &c. Jir.Ft. 170T. 
(7) See Denon, Hamilton, &c. The Inscription was also copied by 
sieveral of our officers Avho came with the Indian army to Egypt. 
It is there written Marcus Clodius Posiumus. Denon wrote the name 
nOCTOTMO . 
