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Syro-Chaldasan names. Syro-Macedonian names. Palmyrene names. 
Canun prior. Apellreus. Pellul. 
Cumin pojterior. Aydynaus. Pebeth. 
Sbebat. Peritius. She bat. 
N'ifan. Xanthicus. Nifan. 
Eilul. Gorpiceus. Elul. 
Pijn. Hyperberetaus. PiJ'ri. 
By the names Pebeth and Elul it fhould Teem, that 
the proper Syrians did not approach fo near the 
Jews, in the appellations of their months, as did the 
Palmyrenes. 
3. In order to fet in a clearer light what has been 
here obferved of the laft- mentioned infcription, I 
have been perfuaded by the Reverend and very 
Learned Mr. Sanford, Fellow of Balliol College, to 
attempt an explication of it ; which I now beg leave 
to fubmit to the judgment of our moll illufirious 
Society. Nor fhall I be greatly cenfured, as the 
forms of the letters, of which it is compofed, have 
undoubtedly been altered by time ; and as none 
of the copies of it, that I have feen, have been 
exactly taken; if this in all points fhould not be 
flridtly conformable, to truth. All of thofe letters, 
as exhibited by the copies now before me, are not 
eafily reducible to the correfpondent elements in 
Mr. Dawkins’s Palmyrene alphabet, by the aiiiifance 
of which I have endeavoured to decipher this in- 
fcription. However, as no fmall affiftance has like- 
wife been afforded me by the Greek one anfwering to 
it, and the numeral characters at the end of it, as 
well as by the fecond, third, and thirteenth, of Mr. 
4 Z 2 Dawkins’s 
