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of the firft word b aal, it may perhaps be not fo eafy 
to decide. 
From the two Phoenician proper names baal 
tarz, or eaal tars, it feems highly probable, 
that the medal was ftruck at Tarfus, the capital of 
Cilicia, feated in a country abounding with wild 
beafts, ( 1 1) particularly lions and flags, and famous 
for the birth of the great apoflle St. Paul. For 
baal tarz, or baal tars, is equivalent to 
Jupiter Tar.sen.sis, Jupiter of Tarsus, or 
the lord of Tarsus. So we find this Pagan di- 
vinity denominated (12) on coins ZETC KACIOC, 
Jupiter Casius, ZETC KAniTXIAlETC ANTI- 
OXEXXN, Jupiter Capitolinus Antiochen- 
s 1 u M , ZETC CTPATHTOC AMACTPIANflN, Jupi- 
TER IMPERATOR A M AS T R I A N ORUM , &C. Alld, 
upon (13) a coin of the emperor Hadrian, we read. 
AIOC TAPCEfiN METPOnOAEaC, Jovis Tar- 
sensium metropoleos, or Jovis Tarsensis, of 
Jupiter of Tarsus, the very appellation given this 
pretended deity by the medal now in view. Nay, he is 
there exhibited with his eagle, and fitting in a chair, 
as he appears upon the Phoenician coin I am endea- 
vouring to explain. The notion here advanced is 
alfo ftrongly fupported by two pieces of the emperor 
Gordian, publifhed by Dr. Vaillant. One of thefe 
on the reverfe prefents to cur view Bacchus, with a 
(ij) /Elian, de AnimdL Lib. V. c. lvi. Boch. Chan. Lib. I. 
c. v. p. 376, 377. Francof. ad Mcen. 1681. 
(12) Joan. Vaill. Nujnifm. Imp. Align ft . id Cezfar. d Pop. Rom. 
Dit, Greece loquent. &c. pefT. in i ike manner the great deity of. 
Bcrytus went under the appellation of eaal berith, according 
to Bochart. Boc’n. ubi fup. p. S59. 
(13) Joan* Vaill. ubi lup. p. 36. Amftdaedami, 1700. 
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