'cm) 
the beginning, arrd the lower part of the round ftroke 
of the P> being effaced, fo as to pafs for T. I have 
taken care to have the Stone purpofely viewed, as alfo 
to get from thence the exaft Figure of the Syrian or PaU 
myrene Charaders thereon, wherein there is an irrecon- 
cileable difference between Spon and Gruter, By the help 
of thefe, compared with two others taken at Palmjra^ 
which I have by me, (they being all very near the fame 
Date,) I hope we may be able, one day, to make out 
the Talmyrene Alphabet : but it were to be wifht our 
Travellers had tranfcribed them with more curiofity, 
and taken more of them. 
By the way, it is remarkable, that the Perfon who 
dedicated this Monument, in Gruter and Spotty is ftiled 
A. ATP. HAlOAce^pOC: and the fame Name occurs in 
a broken Infaiption which Mr. Halifax omitted in his 
Letter to Dr. BernarJ^ as being too imperfec9-. It flood 
cn the right-hand of fhe entrance to the little Temple 
defcribed pag. 104. and was thus, 
AOTKIOT ATPH[ai]0T ----- HAIOA^yPGT TOT 
And after a blank of three lines all worn out except one 
fingle O, there followed, 
[t€i"]mhC xapin eroTC • mhnoc [ah] Gaaai [or] 
And that imperfect one in pag. 99. feems to have rela* 
tion to the fame Name. 
7. Tag. ^luf. MAAeNTON KAI AFPinnAN lege MAAHN TON: 
KAi AFPinnAN, it being written maahnton, with H in 
the two other Copies I have feen, whereby the fence 
is deared.. 
8. Tag, 10^. ArAOANreAGC ABIAHNOC THC A^KAnOAeOG, 
jigathangelus Ahilems Decapolitanus^Patronymce, There 
were in thefe Parts two Cities known by the Name of 
Ahila ; to diftinguifh which, the one v/as called ^^/7^ £y- 
^famai^totn the Name of theTetrarch : St. Luke, cb.3. i. 
is placed by Ptolemy (in his Co^lojyria) about mid- 
