C 753 ] 
The fecond Roman Palmyrene infcription, pub- 
lilhed by Mr. Reland, from a copy taken of it by 
Mr.Maffon, in his Palceft Illujlrat. Tom. ii. p. J16, 
Trajedi Batavorum, 1714. 
See Plate xxx, Number m. 
win i m 
onfa onasD aip 
oidW joirrnW? awini 
ARAM HANC MALACHBELO ET DIIS TADMOR 
OBTVLIT (vel DEDICAVIT) TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS 
CALBIENSES ET TADMORIENSES (vel PALMYRENI) 
DIIS SVIS VOTVM SOLVERVNT. 
TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS DEDICATED THIS ALTAR 
TO MALACHBELVS AND THE GODS OF TADMOR: 
THE CALBITES AND THE TADMORITES (or PAL- 
MYRENES) HAVE PERFORMED THE VOW THEY 
MADE TO THEIR GODS. 
The terms, which form this infcription, are fo clear 
and intelligible, that it would be fuperfluous to ex- 
patiate upon them. My converlion of M. l’Abbe 
Barthelemy’s dubious Samech and Jod , the powers of 
which he fcems not abfolutely to have afcertained, 
into Jod and Aleph, in the word M373> at the end 
of the fecone line, is fufficiently juftified, and even 
rendered inconteftable, by the word NWlffl, that 
immediately follows, and the correfpondent Latin 
f C infcription* 
