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1 give yoti, Sir, thefe Infcriptions, as thofe before, 
juft as I found them, without any Amendments, fo much 
as of Litteral Faults, only where a letter, or piece of a 
word was not legible, if I could make a probable Con- 
|e<Sture what it Ihould be, I have ventured to add it. 
The laft fiems to have been put up in Memory of an 
Embafly, performed by thofe Men that are named there- 
in, for fettling a Commerce and TrafGck, which was to 
their Satisfadtion accomplilht : But with whom, till I 
can find out what place is meant by {h) OAOrGCIAAA, 
1 muft remain ignorant. I am unwilling to entertain 
any thoughts ot Getia in Macedonia^ or of Qlgajjiu^ a 
place mentioned by Strdlo in Bythinia^ which comes a 
little nearer the Name, being both fo remote, and the 
City of Tadmor ill contrived for a place of Trade, being 
far from the Sea, and without the Advantage of any 
River. Yet the Magnificence of the Place (hews they 
have not wanted Riches among them : And their Salt is 
a Commodity which ftill brings them in a confiderable 
Advantage. The Order of the Numeral Letters you 
may take notice is again inverted ; but taking them the 
right way, the Year 55*8 falls in with the laft Year of 
the Reign of Akscander Severn^ which is of our Lord 
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{h^ TJs not improbable that OAOrGciAC "light have been the Name of 
a Pcrfon. Vologtfes is a known Name !o Hiflory among the Parthian Kings j 
to which the other feems to bear a great Affinity. 
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