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9. Three Palmyrene names of Syrian deities occur 
in Mr. Dawkins’s infcriptions, and that I am at pre- 
fent endeavouring to decipher; 'viz. IARIBOLVS, 
AGLIBOLVS, and MAL AGHBELV S of which 
the firft points out to us the Moon, and the other 
two, according to fome very learned writers, the 
Sun. That the firft name was antiently applied by 
the Syrians and Palmyrenes to the Deus Limns, or 
the Moon, is allowed on all hands; and has (17) 
been fo clearly demonftrated, that it does not ftand in 
need of any farther proof. And that AGLIBOLVS, 
or AGLIBOL, was in early times one of the Syrian 
names of the Sun, who was dignified by his adorers 
with the title of MALAC, or MALEC, KING, 
is, I conceive, .plain from hence, that the word 
(18) AGLIBAL, or AGLIBOL, apparently figni- 
fies THE ROVND LORD; which appellation 
could not fo properly and emphatically have been 
applied to any other pagan divinity, as the lun. The 
people of Tadmor wrote the laid word in the com- 
pofition of this name tyx Baal , ^ 2 , Bal, or Bely 
and ^ 13 , Bol, Bui , or Pul ; as may be inferred from 
fome of Mr. Dawkins’s Palmyrene (19) infcriptions, 
in conjunction with that I am now confidering, 
(16) Jan. Gruter. Carp. Infcript. ex Recenf. et Annotat. Joan. 
Georg. Graev. p. Ixxxvi. Amftelaedami, 1707. Joan. Selden. Be 
Diis Syr. p. 226. Lipfiae, 1668. Bochart. Chan. Lib. II. c. viii. p. 
81 1. Francofurti ad Moenum, 1681. 
(17) Edw. Bernard. Schol. ad Monument. Palmyrcn. p. 21. 
Tho. Smith. Annotat. in Monument. Pa/myren. p. 53. Rottent- 
dami, 1716. Cl. Hulleius in Aft. Pbilofopb. Anglican. Vol. xix. n. 
218. p. 1 7 1 . 
(18) Bochart. ubi fup. 
(19) Dawk. Marm. Palmyren. Infcript. Palmyren. iv, 9. 1 . 6. 
Infcript. Palmyren. iii. 1 . 5. 
which 
