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14- The fird word of the fecond line here, whioh 
has been injured by time, was not improbably 
or r»tf, INFIX VM, ERECTVM, or CGLLO- 
CATVM EST; WAS FIXED, ERECTED, or 
PLACED ; as the fenfe of this part of the infcrip- 
tion requires either that term, or one of a fimilar 
fignification. The chafm at the end of the feventh 
line I fhall not take upon me to fill up ; tho’ feveral 
words might be offered for this purpofe, which would 
conned; thofe that precede and follow them, with 
very great propriety. That the done containing the 
infeription belonged formerly to an altar, is abun- 
dantly manifeft from the word ET ARA 
or ALTAR E, towards the clofe of the fecond line. 
Nor are we to be furprized, that feveral perfons are 
mentioned here, as concerned in the eredion of it ; 
iince a fimilar inflance, if not one exadly parallel, 
prefents itfelf to our view, in the fecond of Dr. Ber- 
nard’s Greek Palmyrene inferiptions. The fird pro- 
per name, being imperfed, cannot fo eafily be made 
out; but the fecond I take to be OMRIBOL 
SHEMS, or OMRIB OL SHEMS ; which a pure 
and genuine Arab would have wrote AMRIO’L 
SHEMS, or AMRI AL SHEMS, and a Greek 
AMPJCAMCOT. For, that this was one of the 
Palmyrene proper names, we learn from the fourth 
of Dr. Bernard's Greek Palmyrene inferiptions; 
which exhibits it conneded with IARIBOL, or 
IARIBOLIS, almod in the fame manner as the 
monument at prefent under condderation. And 
this circumdance ought to be looked upon as an ad- 
ditional argument, in favour of what is here ad- 
vanced. The next word ZEBID, or ZEBIDA, is 
likewife undoubtedly a Palmyrene proper name ; as 
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