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VOT, CISLEU, the name of one of the (52) He- 
brew months. But, upon a very flight examina- 
tion, it will be found, that fuch a notion muft be 
in fome meafure invalidated by the Palmyrene La- 
vied , than which nothing can be more vifible in 
Mr. Dawkins’s copy of this infcription, at the end 
of that word. I have therefore fuppoled the Pal- 
myrene name of the month here mentioned to have 
been PELLUL, or PELELUL, an apparent deprava- 
tion, or corruption, of the correfpondent Greek AI 1 EA- 
AAin, the Macedonian name of this month. Nor can 
I at prefent think anything, fince that name anfwers 
it) well to the Palmyrene letters, as they appear upon 
the face of the infcription, more juft and natural 
than fuch a fuppolition. 
16. However, as the firft Palmyrene letter in this 
word feems rather more to refemble Caph than Pe\ 
as all the other names of months in the Palmy- 
rene characters are Jewifli, and as the Macedonian 
Apellam correfponded with the Jewifli Cijleu j 
fome of the learned may perhaps be thereby in- 
duced to believe, that the true IeCtion is Cis- 
leu, notwithftanding what is intimated to the con- 
trary here. If this be admitted, it muft be allow- 
ed extremely probable, that the laft letter, which 
is apparently Lamed , was owing either to the in- 
attention of the copier, or the inaccuracy of the in- 
lcriber ; or elfe that it was accidentally added to the 
other elements, after the infcription firft appeared. 
Upon any of which fuppofitions, we may read the 
Pal- 
(52) Val. Schind. ubi fup. p. 881 
