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Xnscripüon XL!. Dr. Halifax calling at Seme in hi* Return home fromIf *tL L Palms - 1 696 enjoyn’d nie to find out the Inscnption in the Language of tbe f >ü ’t. (rrem by Mr. reni mention’d dy De. Spon. I waited upon 8. Fabretti , Canon of St- *.°fi* vlB n 2il~ ters^ and by him I Was fully Inform’d to my Purpole. He lent me alf° ^v 537- Draught of it, which 1 catry’d to the Vinea Crsarmi about a Mile wim°

3 ' the Forle del Popolo, to compare it wuh the Original ; but I found ir 1)0 ^Exact. Wherefore I took a Wet Paper, and having sarit Clear’d the6 s cers a Bodkin, Jaid it on the Charaüers, and Prciiing it with my

kerchief took it off very Fair, then letring it Dry I weite overit with

On the Top of ehe Cypreft which is upon one of the Sides of thethere is a Labei for an Inscriptio», tho’ nothing upon it, and jult belo'* r ^onthe Lest 8ide, park of a Boy appears out of the Tree wi.h a Lamb ’ J P 0 ^his Shoulders, which is omitted in Dr. Sport. The Störte appear’d to m ehave Remain’d Unmolested for fbme Time, because front the Ground, 1Inscriptio» was over-run wirb Ivy, the Wood of which had crept into cLetter, and over the Grypbons and Figures above it.

jjeauyhti yf XLII, I. I have lately retriev’d fome Fragments of Papers relating^üoZ^alfnKL- ^ n ’% ue and Obseure Inscriptions at Persepolis, taken in Nov. i6ös 7rafters a t verse- Mr. S. Flower Agent in Pcrfia for our Jk. I. Company, who Dy’d Luddel 3 /A° hS ». ^ioi? F- f° on after, and lest them Dispers’d in several Hanus.

?■ 175' Fig, 66 , öy. These Two CharaSters are Engraven on the Bre^ ,•

Fjg.5s.8c57. two Hör je s cut out of the Mountain of Black* Marble at Nottureftand, ~rftant a League from Chahelmanart, or the Ancient Persepolis, one wbff ^is seid tobe Alexanders, theother Ruftrams, ( a Famous Hero, lupp° s ^haveLiv’d about the time of the Cambyses. ) Mr. Flower, ^

Fig. 66. This Character hath fome Similitude v/ith the Ancient "^bnw : but the Perstans would have it their Own, rhough they unde>^not a Letter. Mr. F. _

Fig. 68. These Two Lines were writ entire on RußranPs Horse. Mi - -Ftg. 69. This is the (Ärabick) Perfian Character Engraven atfsJ „polis not above yoo Years since, and is little Different from the Wt 111 *Uscd at this Day. Mr. F.

Ftf.

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68 .

65.

r 't- 70.

Fig. 70 : This Charabltr , whether it be the Ancient Writfng

of &

G aures, or Gabres, or a kind of Telesmes, is found only at Persepolis,a part of what is there Engraven on White-Marble, and is by nofcrßa Legible, ox Under fioodat this Day. , -y,

A Learned Jesuit Father, whoDeceas’d 3 Years since Affirrrfd thisr alter to beKnown and lls’d in Mgypt. Mr. F. .a 0 f

It feerrrs Wmten from the Lest Hand to the Righr, and to con 5 f j r yPyramids, diverfly Posited, but not Joyn’d together. As to the qdä 0 ^. äof the Infcriptions, Herbert reckon’d in one large Table 2.0 Line* ^Prodiglous Brcädth* Of skic fnrf arp Ponorc ^slcb o* ^

Lines*

Of this sort here are Distinct Papers, each

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