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Dawkins’s Palmyrene infcriptions, on which my 
conjectures have already been offered; I hope the 
following interpretation of it (which yet I would 
have only considered as an imperfeCt effay) will not 
prove unacceptable to the learned. 
The Palmyrene Infcription publifhed by Gruter and 
M. Spon. 
See Plate xxx, Number i. 
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AGLTBOLO ET MALACHBELO ET MONVMEN- 
TVM ELEVATVM (five SIGNVM) ARGENTI ET OR- 
NATVM EIVS PARAVIT EX MARSVPIO SVO IA- 
RHiEVS (vel IARjEVS) FILIVS HALIBEI (vel CHALIBEI) 
FILII IARHEI (vel IAR/EI) PROPTER OFFICIVM (five 
RELIGION EM) TIMORJS (i. e. EX VOTO A IAREO 
IN ALIQVO PERICVLO CONSTITVTO ET TIMORE 
PERTERRITO FACTO) ET OB SALVTEM SVAM ET 
SALVTEM LIBERORVM (vel FAMILDE) EIVS MENSE 
SHEBAT ANN1 DXLVII. 
IAR/EVS THE SON OF HALIBEVS, or CHALIBEVS, 
THE SON OF 1 ARE VS, DEDICATED THIS ELE- 
VATED MON VM ENT OF SILVER, AND ITS ORNA- 
MENTS, PREPARED AT HIS OWN EXPENCE, TO 
AGLIBOLVS AND MALACHBELVS, N CONSEQVENCE 
OF A VOW HE HAD MADE, WHEN IN GREAT 
FEAR AND DANGER, AND FOR THE SAFETY, 
HEALTH, 
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