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I AM indebted to DR. YOUNG for the following explanationof the foregoing Inscriptions, which he has allowed me topresent to the Public,*« Marcus Aurelius, Verus, Antoninus, or brother of Verus, son of Antorninus.No. L in the quarries at Gartaas, imder the right figure in the liDck." The homage this day paid: Muschas, priest of the place, does this forgood fortune; with his wife and his children; and Palestes his son; and for hisbrothers and Jus friends; and for Petedias, prefect of the Nome: in the tenthsacerdotal year; the 20th of Tybi: (the gate was erected for the protection ofthe place by the neighbourhood)."The end is obscaire: if we are to read"TOMOY" perhaps it may mean a quarry; the whole inscription is vary inaccurate.No. II. under the left figure, intended for something like the homage ofBeomrion, priest of the place, and ApoUonius; besides for his brothers and hismother, and Panuis his falh^, euid Senpetosiris, and those who love me, and allthose of the place: the third year of Alexander, the 14th Phamenoth.Over this figure, " Macrinus himself, priest of the places, eight ounces ofgold," (or eighty ounces).No. in. « The homage of Resas RonpaBieus, priest of the place* and ofthose who love him; and he ihade the dedication (KA0IAYCIN) of the templeof Phceretria "witii good omens * LKR' 17 Pharmuthi, according to the ancients;ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ

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