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Excerpt from The Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York: A Monograph On the a7th of January I visited the Museum, and spent some time in' making a transcript from the bronze of all that could be easily deciphered. The condition then presented by the inscriptions as far as I observed will be seen in the accompany ing fac-similes (a) (a), with the three exceptions which will be noted below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.