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the town the infcriber had in view, I muft not pre- 
fume pofitively to affirm. 
8. From the firft: of thele Palmyrene inferiptions, 
if the fixth line of it be exactly copied, and the 
Greek one anfwering to it, we may fairly collect, 
that the fourth day of the month Tebeth was coin- 
cident with the twenty-fourth of Aydynceus , the Ma- 
cedonian month ; and confequently that thofe two 
months were not precifely the fame, as we find inti- 
mated (a) by Dr. Fabricius. The for*ier of them 
began on the twenty-firft day of the latter, if the 
authority of our inscription in this point may be 
intirely depended upon. Hence likewife it mod: 
evidently appears, that T'ebeth was the name of a 
Syrian, as well as of an Hebrew, month. 
p. Though the Palmyrene dialed be almofi:, in all 
refpeds, the fame with the Syriac yet it mud be al- 
lowed, that fome Hebrew words occur in thef€ in- 
feriptions. Of this 5010, in the firft and fecond, and 
31 , in the fifth, to omit other inftances of the fame 
kind, are inconteftable proofs. For which we may 
eafily account, if we confider, that many ( b ) Jews, as 
well as Chriftians, were fettled in the territories of the 
Palmyrenes. ’Tis remarkable, that though the word “Q. 
BAR, is ufed here for SON in the enumerations of 
defeents; yet TVttU, according to the Syriac form, 
HIS CHILDREN, prelents itfelf to our view to- 
wards the dole of the thirteenth infeription. As to 
the word WH, it muft be owned to be likewife of 
fa) Jo. A.bert. Fabric. Menolog. p. 16, 42. Hamburgi, 1712. 
'(I ) Seller’s A.-uiq. ofPaimyr. Chap. xix. 
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