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BALMICHAL THE SON OF MOGIATHATH, 
MAZO THE SON OF VAHBALATH. 
January 17th, 1754. 
Remarks on thefe Infcriptions. 
1. They feem both to have been mutilated, tho’ 
the eleventh has differed more than the other ; 
fome of its letters being partly defaced, and partly 
deformed, by time. 
2 . That they confid of the proper names of men, 
connected by the word BAR, SON, is obvious to 
every one, who reads them. 
3. That thefe men were perfons of didindtion, 
and filled fome of the highed pods in the date, there 
is great reafon to believe. 
4. That the names themfelves, as exhibited here, 
are of oriental extra&ion, tho’ the reafon of their 
impofition, at this didance of time, is not known, 
fa) can by no means be denied. 
f. In the twelfth infcription, as well as the ele- 
venth, tho’ in the latter it is fomething deformed, 
the proper name VAHBALATH, or VABALA- 
THVS, (which has alfo been preferved by coins) in 
the Palmyrene chara&er, manifedly occurs. 
6 . That the dates of thefe infcriptions, if any were 
ever vifible in them, mud have been poderior to the 
447th year of Seleucus, or the 136th of Christ, 
the forms of the letters themfelves, and particularly 
that of the Jg d, or Jud , evidently prove. 
(a) Val. Schind. Lex. PentagloU p. 1048, 1220, 1050, 1959, 
i960, 1372, &c. 
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