Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1791
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SAL/02/024/020
Title
Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1791
Date
9/6/1791
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The following Fellow was elected: Robert Aldersey.
The following Fellow was admitted to the Society: Rev. William Holcombe.
Mr James Moore presented the first number of Monastic Remains & Ancient Castles in England & Wales, from his original drawings.
Mr William Forsyth presented his Observations on the Diseases, Defects and Injuries in All Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees.
Mr Jacob Schnebbelie presented the second number of The Antiquaries Museum.
Richard Gough (Director) discussed a drawing of tesserae found in Dorset at unknown location. When re-paving Middle Temple Hall ca. 1750 an enamelled silver gilt box of small ivory dice was discovered. In 1765 Mr Dacosta exhibited an ancient die [illustrated in Archaeologia Vol. VIII] found at Sutton at Hone near Dartford, Kent where a Commandery of Knights Hospitaller had existed; that order’s only preceptory in Dorset had been Friar Maine in Knighton. How such gaming items should be found at houses of this religious order, or their successors, was for others to determine.
Richard Gough (Director) discussed a letter of the late Dr. [John] Taylor about the Sandwich Marble (Marmor Sandvicense), brought from Athens in 1739 by Lord Sandwich [John Montagu, 4th Earl]. Of greater age than most known Greek or Roman inscriptions, dating from 100th Olympiad [380 BCE] a century earlier than Parian Chronicle [264/263 BCE], it was singular in having the same number of letters in each line in a regular grid. It gave a public record of 4-yearly Athenian visits to sanctuary of Apollo at Delos with accounts of receipts from the encircling islands, expenditure, arrearage and rents.
Dr Taylor noted help in recovery of town names, otherwise unrecorded, some lost in ancient times.
From the accounts, he believed the symbol Ͱ [Heta] to represent the Obol(us) [ancient Greek currency & weight] but also to denote a phonetic aspirate, citing Salmasius and ancient coinage, comparing functions with Ϝ (Digamma) and ˧ as adspirate or lenis. Marmora Oxoniensia cited for similar context.
The following Fellow was admitted to the Society: Rev. William Holcombe.
Mr James Moore presented the first number of Monastic Remains & Ancient Castles in England & Wales, from his original drawings.
Mr William Forsyth presented his Observations on the Diseases, Defects and Injuries in All Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees.
Mr Jacob Schnebbelie presented the second number of The Antiquaries Museum.
Richard Gough (Director) discussed a drawing of tesserae found in Dorset at unknown location. When re-paving Middle Temple Hall ca. 1750 an enamelled silver gilt box of small ivory dice was discovered. In 1765 Mr Dacosta exhibited an ancient die [illustrated in Archaeologia Vol. VIII] found at Sutton at Hone near Dartford, Kent where a Commandery of Knights Hospitaller had existed; that order’s only preceptory in Dorset had been Friar Maine in Knighton. How such gaming items should be found at houses of this religious order, or their successors, was for others to determine.
Richard Gough (Director) discussed a letter of the late Dr. [John] Taylor about the Sandwich Marble (Marmor Sandvicense), brought from Athens in 1739 by Lord Sandwich [John Montagu, 4th Earl]. Of greater age than most known Greek or Roman inscriptions, dating from 100th Olympiad [380 BCE] a century earlier than Parian Chronicle [264/263 BCE], it was singular in having the same number of letters in each line in a regular grid. It gave a public record of 4-yearly Athenian visits to sanctuary of Apollo at Delos with accounts of receipts from the encircling islands, expenditure, arrearage and rents.
Dr Taylor noted help in recovery of town names, otherwise unrecorded, some lost in ancient times.
From the accounts, he believed the symbol Ͱ [Heta] to represent the Obol(us) [ancient Greek currency & weight] but also to denote a phonetic aspirate, citing Salmasius and ancient coinage, comparing functions with Ϝ (Digamma) and ˧ as adspirate or lenis. Marmora Oxoniensia cited for similar context.
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