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^i^.vUjj'oi'cLivcihi and not 'oS'cttvo^^ as in the 

 firft Copy, and perhaps ought rather to be 

 oJ'AivA^ov^ as being the Infcription under a 

 Statue of the lame Odcenathus^ who is here, 

 as well as on his Tomb, ftiled Jllufirijfimus 

 Tatricius^ but without a Date. 



^. rno lAPlB^yAOT 0gOT (-^ag. ipi. & I Op.) 



It cannot well be doubted but that this Deus 

 ^ariholus is the fame with what Gruter Q^g^ 

 8(5.) and Spon (in the firft; of his Infcripti- 

 ons) reads AfAiB^yA^j. By the Figure of the 

 Idol extaint in Spo?7^ it appears that this God 

 was made with the Moon upon his Shoulders, 

 and confequently was the Vetis Lmus wor- 

 Ihipped by the Syrians^ y^hoi^^ Name, in the 

 Language of that Country, could not be 

 better expreflfed than by Jarehbol ^y^^ fll^ 

 Domtnus Lunus. Whence I am induced to 

 believe, that Gruter niiflook it aiaib^jAw for 

 AFAiB^yAft^. the I in the beginning, and the 

 lower part of the round ftroke of the P, be- 

 ing effaced, fo as to pafs for I have takeii 

 care to have the Stone purpofely viewed, as 

 alfo to get from thence the exaft Figure of 

 the Syrian or Palrnyrene Cha rafters thereon^ 

 wherein there is an irreconcilable difference 

 between Spon and Gruter. By the help of 

 thefe, compared \vith two others taken at 

 Palmyra^ which I have by me, (they being 

 all very near the fame Date,) I hope we m.ay 

 be able, one Day, to make out the Palrnyrene 

 Alphabet : But it were to be wiffi'd our Tra- 

 vellers had tranfcribed them with more Cu* 

 riofity, and taken more of them. 



By the way, it is remarkable, that the Per* 

 foa who dedicated this Monument, in Gruter 



and 



