I d 0 MifcelUma Cur to fa. Vol. til. 



Some Account of the Ancient State 

 of the City of Palmyra^ ^ith 

 Jhort Remarks u^onthe Infcrifti-- 

 ons found there. By E. Halley* 



THE City of iTadmor^ whofe Remains 

 in Ruins do with To much evidence 

 demonftrate the once happy Condition there- 

 of, feems very well to be proved to be the 

 fame City which Solomon the great King of 

 Jfrael is faid to have founded under that 

 Name in the X>cyC2rf, both in t Kings c^. i8. 

 and 2 Chron. 16. in the Tranflation of 

 which, the Fulgar Latin Ferfion^ faid to be 

 that of St. Jerom^ has it, Condidit Palmyram 

 in Deferto. And Jojephpis (in lib. 8. Anti^. 

 Jud. wherein he treats of Solomon and his 

 Ads^ tell us, that he Built a City in the De- 

 fart, and called it Thadamjra and the 5yn- 

 ans at this Day (fays he) call it by the fame' 

 Name ^ but the Greeks name it Palmyra. The 

 Name is therefore Greek, and confequent- 

 ly has no relation to the Latin Palma^ and 

 feems rather derived from Ticthy^vU or u^\uv?^ 

 which Hefychim Interprets ,3^*^-/ i)r ^<*Tr)p or 

 perhaps from na^A/vcur^f^ which (according to 

 the fame Author) was an Egyptian God, Nei^ 

 ther is the Word ^Q^n but "»t)n that in He-^ 

 brewfignifies a Palm-Tree. 



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