Three Citiean inscriptions
Date
1764
Creator
John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p54
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 143mm
width (paper): 106mm
width (paper): 106mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Six lines of transcribed ancient text. Similar to (but varying from) plate 26 from the paper 'Farther remarks upon M’Abbe Barthelemy’s Memoir on the Phoenician letters, contained in his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments, and the alphabets resulting from them. In a letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch...', by John Swinton, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), pp. 393-438. Not signed.
Object history
John Swinton, ‘Farther Remarks upon M. l'Abbé Barthelemy's Memoir on the Phoenician letters, containing his reflections on certain Phoenician monuments, and the alphabets resulting from them’, Phil. Trans., 54 (1764), 393-438, tab. 26.
Related fellows
John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman