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GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM~ DAMASCUS. was set up on end between the third and fourth boards at the western end of the Tabernacle (on which account it was so designated), and supported a ridge-cord, the other end of which. was supported. by the Iniddle "pillar" at the entrance. I venture to render the participle in Exodus xxvi, 28, "causing to reach," i.e., causing the ridge-cord to reach. Cords, I would observe, are n1entioned in Exodus xxxix, 40. SEAL FROM HEBRON. By Lieut.-Colonel CONDER, R.E., D.C.L. THIS seal was brought fron1 Hebron thirty years ago by Rev. Dr. Stewart, of I.Jeghorn, and given to Dr. Cumming, of Edinburgh. It is now in possession of his son, who kindly showed it to me. It is in the style commonly found on signets from Babylonia, Phamicia, Cyprus, and Palestine, and represents a nmn holding a goat. It has been thought to refer to the Scape Goat. The figure is not milking, nor does it appear to be sacrificing, the goat. The design, as far as my experience g,oes,is very unusual. The designs on such seals have usually a religious nleaning. A GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM THE G-RAND MOSQUE, DA¥.A.SCUS. By ERNESTW. GURNEYMASTERMAN, F.R.C.S. WHENgoing