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SORS five PORTIO eft H^EC IVLII AVRELII SAL- 
MALATHI FILII MALjE HEBRAEI FRINCIPIS vel DVC- 
TORIS CATER V.E Mercatomm QVAM STATVIT El 
SENATVS POPVLVSQVE QVOD DOMVM REDVX 1 T 
CATER VAM Mercatorum DE RE FAMILIARI GRATIS 
earn SV STENT ANS ANNO DLXIX. 
THIS IS THE LOT, or PORTION, OF IVLIVS AV- 
RELIVS SALMALATH, THE SON OF MALA, A 
JEW, PRINCE, CHIEF, or LEADER, OF THE CARA- 
VAN of Merchants ; WHICH THE SENATE AND PEO- 
PLE HAVE DECREED HIM, BECAVSE HE CON- 
DVCTED HOME THE CARAVAN, AND SVPPORTED 
IT AT HIS OWN EXPENCE, IN THE YEAR DLXIX. 
February 9th, 1754. 
Remarks on thefe Infcriptions. 
1. From the words WIN, p’N, AIRAN, ODI- 
NATH, or JERAN, OD/ENATH, and to- 
gether with the words AIPANHN OAAINA0OT, 
H EOTAH, in the correfpondent Greek infeription, 
it plainly appears, that the letter Aleph , amongft the 
Palmyrenes, -fometimes anfwered to A, fometimes 
to E, and fometimes to O, about the middle of the 
third century. 
2. From the words Np'ZD^pJD, SENATORIS, 
n:Ps nho, marii philini, D’tniN, av- 
RELIVS PHILINVS, Ac. we may colled, that 
one of the Palmyrene terminations of Greek and 
Latin words in the oblique cafes was N • but 
that the people of Tadmor, in the nominative cafe, 
when they wrote fuch words in their own character, 
generally preferved the Greek and Latin termina- 
tions. 
