Assyriac

5th, That the same, also, were the Chaldaic characters with which, according to Athenæus, the epitaphium of Sardanapalus, at Nineveh, was engraved; the Assyriac characters mentioned by Herodotus, Diodorus, Polyænus, and other ancient authors, rather than the square Chaldaic now in use among the Jews; or the Samaritan, the Estranghelo, and other alphabetic letters.

I feel, on the whole, great confidence in this being the genuine Assyriac numeral for "three," [...]

[...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]

[...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language.