Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16382

    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
    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.
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    John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
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