Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9369
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Three Citiean inscriptions
Date
1764
Creator
John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 143mm
width (drawing): 106mm
width (drawing): 106mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Six lines of transcribed ancient text. Similar [but varying from] plate 26 for 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, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.54 (1764), pp.393-438. Not signed.