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if we admit, the names, or furnames, of AGLIBOL, 
or AGLEBAL, and MALECBAL, may be confi- 
dered as two different titles, or furnames, of the SVN ; 
or rather as two appellations pointing out to us two 
pagan divinities, with which the Palmyrenes were 
lupplied by the different appearances, or influences, 
of the Sun in fummer and winter. This notion has 
been countenanced (7) by Salmafius, and fome (8) 
other very learned men. However, I muff frankly 
own, that I cannot, to my intire fatisfadion, yet trace 
out the elements M. l’Abbe has favoured us wih, in 
any of the copies of this infcription, that has hither- 
to fallen under my infpedion. 
That I VPITER and the S VN were looked upon as 
the fame deity, and denominated BAAL, or BAAL 
SHEMESH, by the people of Abila, a town of Syria, 
at no very great diftance from the famous Heliopolis, 
if not by the Palmyrenes ; we may, I think, fairly 
infer from an infcription in the Pa'myrene charader, 
copied by (9) Signiore Pietro della Val e, ( o) at 
Teive, or Teibe, between two and three days (ti) 
journey from Tadmor, in conjundion with a (12) 
Greek one publifhed by Dr.Bernard, that appears upon 
the fame flone. The infcription in the Palmyrene cha- 
(7) Claud. Salmaf. ad Flav. Vopifc. in Div. Aurelian. 
(8) Jan. Gruter. ubi fup. Joan. Selden. DeDiisSyr. Syntag. ii. 
p. 226. Lipfiae, 1668. Bochart. Chan. p. 811. Francofurti ad Mce- 
num, 1681. 
(9) Hadr. Reland, ubi fup. p. 5 2 5 i 5 2 ^* 
(10) Philofoph. Tranfaft. Vol. xix. n. 217. p. 109. & n. 218. 
P- 173 * 
(11) Philofoph. Tranfaft. V ol. xix. n. 217. p. 109. 
(12) Edw. Bernard. Monument. Paltnyren. p. 2. Rotteraedami, 
1716. 
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