t 6 9 6 ] 
2. The two jfirft of them are imperfect, the latter 
part of both having been apparently defaced. 
3. The word NABIBAL, which is undoubtedly 
the true reading, as I have reftored it here, that has 
been partly deformed and partly effaced by time, or 
elfe not exactly taken, in the third line of the tenth 
infcription, may be recovered by the affiftance of 
the Greek one anfwering to it. 
4. I have taken the liberty to fuppofe the letter 
wanting in the beginning of the laft word in the fourth 
line of that infcription to be Lamed ; which fuppo- 
fition the oriental critics will perhaps allow to be 
not very remote from truth. For, MOTl 1 ?, may either 
be expreffed in Latin AMICITLE NOMINE, PRO 
AMICITIA, or (as Lamed , according to Schindler, 
Lex. Pent. p. 914, is fometimes an article of the 
accufative cafe) AMICVM SVVM ; any .of which 
expreffions will come near enough to TON EAT- 
TOT 4 >IAON, in the correfpondent Greek one, and be 
perfedly confonant to the tenor of both inferiptions. 
f . The dialect, in which thefe Palmyrene inferip- 
tions are written, is moft certainly the Syriac. This 
is rendered inconteftable by the words O’pN, SUR- 
GERE FECIT, POSUIT, EREXIT, STATUIT; 
13 , FILIUS ; Nip’ 1 ?, HONORIS CAUSA ; norm 
or NDm*?, PRO AMICITIA; which manifeftly be- 
long to that dialed:. 
6. But, notwithftanding this, feveral of the words 
• they exhibit, fuch as KPAT 1 CTOC, EniTPOHA, 
ACTPATHTA, DVCENARA, and COLONIA, 
are indifputably of Greek and Latin extradion. 
7. In the third line of the tenth infcription, the word 
AVRELI VS wants the letter R; and in the fourth, the 
word ACTPATHFA the letter T. That this is an un- 
doubted 
