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XII.—I. Papers connected with a Latin Acrostic Inscription engraved on a Stone brought from the Great Temple at Kalabshe in Nubia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Peter Rainier
Peter Rainier
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Extract

I have now the pleasure to forward to you an extract from the private journal of my brother-in-law, Captain Peter Rainier, C.B., of the Royal Navy, giving all the information in his possession respecting the stone discovered by him in the great temple at Kalabshe in Nubia, having a Latin acrostic inscription cut on it, of which the accompanying is an exact copy.

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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1833 , pp. 261 - 268
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1833

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* Parodied by Milton, , “Who would not aing for Lycidas?”Google Scholar

* De Bosch, . ad Anthol. 4to. Ultraj. 1810. Vol. IV. p. 298.Google Scholar

† Ibid. p. 437.