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which I have already had the honour to fubmit fa 
the fuperior judgment of that moft learned and illuf- 
trious body. I imagine then, that the mutilated 
term H3 •• (46) might have been originally either 
TOT, DEDERUNT, DONAVERUNT, or my, * 
PARAVERUNT, DEDICAVERUNT, &c. the 
latter of which words occurs, in the fame fenfe, 
on a Palmyrene marble, exhibiting an infcription 
that I have formerly (47) attempted to explain. 
If this be admitted, the two firft lines muft be 
tranflated into Latin (48) thus : DONUM HOC 
eft ATQUE ARA QUM DEDERUNT (PARA- 
VERUNT, vel DEDICAVERUNT) OMRIBOL 
SHEMESH (AMRIO’L SHAMS, vel AMRI AL 
SHAMS) ETZEBIDA; and into Englifh thus — : 
THIS IS THE GIFT AND ALTAR WHICH 
OMRIBOL SHEMESH (AMRIO’L SHAMS, or 
AMRI AL SHAMS) AND ZEBIDA GAVE 
(or DEDICATED.) But whether we adopt thefe 
new tranflations, or acquiefce in thofe formerly given, 
we cannot, as I apprehend, be very remote from 
truth j lince I make not the leaft doubt, but all of 
them are perfectly confonant to the genuine fenfe 
and tenor of the infcription. 
13. The term an, RAB, like wife, in the fifth 
line of Mr. Dawkins’s fifth Palmyrene infcription, 
may perhaps be fuppofed by fome to admit there of 
( 46) Line 3d. 
(47) Philofoph. Tranfafi. Vol. xlviii. p. 732. 
(.48) Vid. Val. Schind, Lex, Pentaglot. p. 460, 1256. Hanovise,- 
1612. 
a fig- 
