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derivative altered and elaborated through Phoenician influences, such 
as might have been anticipated to have accompanied the apparent 
course of the Arian letters themselves. This may be a curious ques¬ 
tion for future investigation and illustration ; at present, it is suffi¬ 
cient to say, that the three Arian figures, similar to our English 3, 
constitute as a total, the sum of six tens, while the isolated c, at the 
end of the row of figures, completes the number of 70, to which we 
have to add the eight, already noticed under the units—making the 
complete date of the plate the year 78. 
In conclusion I may notice, that Mr. Dowson concurs in Colonel 
Cunningham’s reading of the Macedonian months ! 
Four 0 0 0 0 
*' 
Ten n.n 
Jl 
£ 
These are run either fi| 
n n 
n 
thus for 40 or thus for 
non 
nnn 
nnnn 
n 
ioo = 0 
Gesenius p. 87 Phoenician Numbers ; ordinary 10 is — but, alia figura itidem 
denarium numerum designan3 est hsec semilunaris 0 
See also Juda’s “La langue Phenicienne,” p. 84. 
