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letters exhibited in his third plate. It may not be 
improper to obferve here, that we are obliged for 
the publication of this laft infcription to (4) F. 
Montfaucon, (y) Mr. Reland, and (6) Sig. Po- 
leni, as well as to M. Spon. 
In my anfwer of the Sth inft. to M. l’Abbe’s 
letter, dated at Paris, Sept. 5th, which reached me 
here the 12 th of the fame month, I told him, that 
I had drawn out my conjedures upon the firft of the 
infcriptions he defired me to give fome attention to, 
before the arrival of his letter ; but that I could not 
at prefent find time to attempt an explication of the 
other. Nor indeed ought I to think of undertaking 
fuch a talk, before I can procure an accurate copy 
of the infcription to be explained, which M. l’Abbe 
Barthelemy fays he is in poffeffion of j thofe to be 
met with in F. Montfaucon, Mr. Reland, Sig. Po- 
leni, and M. Spon, being fo inaccurately taken, 
that, with regard to the forms of the letters they 
exhibit, they cannot certainly be depended upon. 
If the fquare, or Chaldee, letters at the bottom of 
M. l’Abbe’s third plate do really anfwer to the Pal- 
myrene elements, they are intended to reprefent ; the 
S V N had the name, or furname,of M AL ACHBELV S, 
MALACBELVS, or MALECBAL, that is to fay, 
KING BAAL, given him by the Palmyrenes. Which 
(4) Montfauc. L’ Antiquit. Expliq. Tom. II. par. ii. p. 392. pb 
clxxix. 
(5) Hadrian. Reland. Palajl. lUuJlrat. Tom. ii. p. 526. Traje&i 
Batavorum, 1714. 
(6) Joan. Polen. Utriufq.Thefaur. Anti quit at. Romanar. & Gra - 
car. W. Supplement. Vol. quart, p. 411, 654. Venetiis, 1737. 
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