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4. The fourth word, DDD"T^, abdesvsim, or 
abdesasim, is another Phoenician proper name of 
a man, not to be met with in any antient author. 
If we read it abdesvsim, it anfwers to the Latin 
SERVVS, or CVLTOR, EQVORVM ; if ABDESASIM, 
(45) tO REGENTIVM (viz. DEORVM Mundum RE- 
gentivm) cvltor, or servvs. The latter feems 
to be by far the mod eligible ledtion. Which if 
we admit, it will feem to follow, that the Phoenician 
term CDDD, sasim, was fometimes at lead; equiva- 
lent to dii, svperi, or rather dii Mundum re- 
gentes, amongd the Latins. 
5. The fixth word, hhvr, or hvr, is alfo 
a Phoenician, as well as a (46) Biblical Hebrew, 
mafculine proper name. The ftrft letter, Hheth , 
here is of a pretty unufual form. I have another 
Phoenician infcription, never hitherto publidied, with 
the very fame character in it ; of which, if God 
grants me life and health, I intend to communicate 
an interpretation to the learned world. 
.6. The feventh term nDSfO, from yy, ought to 
be rendered in Latin lapis (47) sepvlchr alis. It 
feems to begin a new fentence, and to be intirely de- 
tached from the preceding words. The genuine 
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( 4*5 ) ^ id* Gol. Lcx~ .Arabic* in voc« five DN'D, 
rexit pro arpitrio. Sam. Bochart. Hierozoic . p. 16. 
Franequcrae, 1690. Jo. Leonhard. Reckenherg. Lex. Hebr. 
p. 1072. Jenae, 1749. 
(46) Matth. Hiller. Otiomajl. Sacr. p. 99, 789. Tubiiigae, 
1706. 
(47) Leonhard. Reckenherg. ubi fup. p. 690. Jenae, 1749. 
Ctiriftian. Stccki Clav. Ling. Sanfl. Vet, Tcjt. p. 470. Jci ie, 
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