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fixth Palmyrene infcription,, and the fragments of 
the Greek one, with which it did originally cor- 
refpond. Hence we may infer, that the Palmyrenes 
had only one month denominated T ifri ; though the 
Syrians, or Syro- Chaldeans, applied to two of their 
months that name. This farther points out to us the 
conformity between the Palmyrenes and the Jews, 
who likewife called only one month Tifri, with 
refpedt to the names of fome of their months ; which* 
in two of my former letters, I have already f 50) hinted 
at. As therefore the Jewifh Tifri and the Macedonian 
Hyperberetaus nearly coincided with the month of 
September , the fame may perhaps likewife be faid 
of the ‘Tifri of the Palmyrenes. Farther, as the aera. 
of Seleucus, according to the beft (yi) chronolo- 
gers, commenced on the firft of O-tfober, our in- 
fcription muft have been drawn, if the learned 
ihould admit what has been fuggefted here, in 
the 2 52d year of Christ ; but if, with the Syro-Ma- 
cedonians, we make Hyperberet^us and Oftober the 
fame month, the preceding year. However, the 
above-mentioned conformity between the Jews and 
the Palmyrenes feems to render fomething more 
probable the former opinion. 
1 y. The Palmyrene "letters forming the laft word 
of Mr. Dawkins’s tenth infcription may all'o perhaps,, 
at firft fight, be imagined to correfpond with the 
Chaldee or Hebrew elements conftituting the word 
(50) Pbilofopb. Tranfatt. Vol. x’viii. p. 703, 731. 
<50 ^ ul - Bevereg. Inffitut. Chronologicar . p. 237. Londini„ 
j? 2 l. Prid. Cornett. Par. I. B. viii. p.539,540. Lond. 1720. 
Jo. Albert. Fabric. Menolog . p. 16, 43, 45. Hamburg!, 1712. 
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