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 Recent Excavations at Carthage. 207 of which arrived in England at the beginning of the present year. These antiquities may be divided into four classes, each of which I propose to notice separately in the following order: i. Inscriptions; n. Fragments of sculpture and architectural decorations ; in. Mosaic pavements ; iv. Minor antiquities. I. Inscriptions. Stone tablets with Phoenician inscriptions have at various times been brought to light among the ruins of Carthage. In 1817 Major J. E. Humbert found near Malkah, the village built amidst the remains of the great cisterns, four ornamented stela with inscriptions, which he looked upon as sepulchral, and which passed from his hands into the Museum at Leyden." Another was discovered near the same spot in 1831 or 1832, and was sent by Chev. Scheel, Secretary to the Danish consulate at Tunis, to the Museum at Copenhagen. It is the most highly ornamented tablet that has been found, and is represented in the Archtcologia, Vol. XXX. PI. V. fig. 7 ; b a cast having been communicated to our Society by Mr. Hudson Gurney. A portion of another is preserved in the Museum at Leydcn, and was first published by Hamaker. c A small fragment of one more, obtained by Humbert from near Malkah, was lost on its way to Denmark.* 1 Another was found in 1823, also near Malkah, and is at Leyden. 6 Another was discovered at the same place by M. Ealbe, from whose hands it is said by Gcsenius to have passed into the collection of Count Turpin/ Three more were found at Carthage by Sir Thomas Reade, and copies of the inscriptions were communicated by him to our Society in 1836, but the present resting-place of the originals is not known/ Another inscrip- tion we owe to M. Ealbe, which is published by Judas in his Elude de la Lnngue Phenicienne^ One more was found in 1811 when digging for the foundations oo o of the Chapel of St. Louis, and is now in the Louvre. 1 Another was discovered during the excavations made by the Society for exploring Carthage, and fell to 8 Humbert, Notice sur qualre cippes septtlcraux et deux fragmens dccovverts en 1817 svr le sol de F ancienne Carthage. The Hague, 1821. See also Gesenius, Scriptural Lingutrque Phamidce Monwnenta, p. 102 (Carthaginienses i. iv.). b See also Falbe, Eecherches, &c. pi. v. No. 3. Gesenius, p. 17G (Carthaginiensis v.). c Miscellanea Phoenicia (1828), p. 9, tab. i. fig. 2. Gesenius, p. 177 (Carthaginiensia vi.). d Hamaker, Miscell. Phoen., p. 11, tab. i. No. 3. Gesenius, p. 178 (Carthaginiensis vii.). 8 Munter, Acta Soc. Reg. Dan., 1824. Hamaker, Miscell. Phoen., p. i. tab. i. No. 1. Gesenius, p. 178 (Carthaginiensis viii.). f Falbe, Recherches, $c. pi. v. No. 5. Gesenius, p. 180 (Carthaginiensis ix.). " PI. 8 (14 Carthaginoise). 1 Judas, Etude, fyc. pi. 9(15" Carthaginoise).
 * Engraved in Gesenius, tab. 47, Nos. Ixxxi. Ixxxii. (Carthaginienses xi. xii.)