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writers for that planet, under the form of a man, and 
gave them the name o fWadd. This notion therefore 
of Dr. Hyde ought to be exploded as a fiction, ad- 
vanced without any manner of foundation, and not 
meriting the attention of the learned. 
9. That the four complete characters on the reverfe 
of my medal vary fomething from the forms of the 
correfpondent characters in Mr. Dawkins’s Palmyrene 
inscriptions, is too obvious and apparent a truth to 
he denied. However, they may alfo be confidered 
as letters of the Chaldee or Babylonian alphabet, with 
lufilcient propriety, nofcwithftanding that variation. 
Nor can it be deemed matter of furprize, that fuch 
alphabetic characters fhould have been im prefled on the 
reverie of this Parthian coin ; efpecially, if it was flruck 
at Vologefia, as there is undoubtedly room enough 
to fuppofe. For that this city was feated in Babylonia 
near the Euphrates, where the Chaldee or Babylonian 
alphabet prevailed, is abundantly manifeflg from what 
has been already obferved (30). # 
10. In fupport of what has been here ad- 
vanced, it may be farther remarked, that the Palmy- 
rene letters were not only ufed about the time of 
Vologefes III. in the Parthian territories bordering 
upon the frontiers of Syria, but likewife in the 
interior part of Pcrlia itfelf. This moft evident- 
ly appears from two inferiptions, in the Palmy- 
rene language and character, with their correfpon- 
dent Greek ones, ftill preferved at NoClureftand, 
NoCta-Ruftam, or Naxi-Ruftan, near thofe re- 
(30) Vid. Steph. Byzant. &Ptol. ufci fup. 
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