[ 4-i 7 ] 
fignification of this word is conlonant enough to the 
tenor of the infcription, which will not admit the 
ftnfe afiigned it by M. l’Abbe. The figure of the 
lzade , which is. a very uncommon one, occurs in 
the medited infcription I hope hereafter to explain. 
7. The eighth word, 2 ±>, lem£, or lemeb, is 
probably another Phoenician proper name. That it 
was ufed as a proper name in Syria, from Jofephus 
is (48) abundantly clear. It occurs alfo as the pro- 
per name of a man in Feftus. The fubflantive p, 
ben, filivs, does not follow 1 ?±>, lemb, with the 
father s name, according to the manner of writing 
not infrequently feen in the Phoenician infcriptions. 
But other indances of fuch an omiffion (49) as 
this have been obferved, on feveral of the antieat 
ftones found in the ruins of Citium. 
8. The verb next prefents itfelf to our view, 
and ought to be rendered vixit, according to the 
Hebrew lexicographers. A fuppreffion of the rela- 
tive pronoun *")2W, qvi, is obfervable here. But 
fuch ellipfes as this were antiently not uncommon, 
according to Noldius (50). 
9. The following character, though in a manner 
the fame with the Citiean form of Jod , is likewife 
fomewhat fimilar to the Palmyrene numeral cha- 
racter reprefenting twenty, (51) and not diili- 
(.48) Jofeph. dntiquit. 'Judaic.. Lib. XIII. c. 15. p. 599. 
Ed. Hudfon. Oxon. 1720. Sex. Pomp. Fell. Lib. XVI. p. 455. 
Amftelodami, 1699. 
(49) Infcript. Cit. 17, 21, 23, &c. 
(50) Chriftian. Mold. Concordant. Particular. Ebrao-Cbald. 
p. 102. Jenfe, 1734. 
(51) Pbilokph. Tranf Vol. XLVIII. Tab, XXIV. Infcript. 
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