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fcription with all the attention I was capable of, and 
took the tranlcript exhibited here upon the fpot. In 
order therefore to rebiify all former miftakes, occa- 
fioned by Sig. Pietro della Valle’s blunders, I judged 
it might not be improper to communicate this, to- 
gether with a new Latin and Englifh verfion of it, at- 
tended by a copy of the correfpondent Greek infcrip- 
tion, as it appears on the ftone, to the Royal Society; 
lubmitting to the consideration of that illuftrious 
body, with all poffible deference, the fhort remarks 
tranfmitted you in this paper. 
For the Palmyrene infciption, fee Tab. I. 
The infcription in Hebrew or Chaldee Characters. 
mp Nobiy *no jw bvib 
D^fUS* NTIDD 
JOVI FVLMINATORI IN AETERNVM fit REVEREN- 
TIA OPERIMENTVM ET LECTVM ei DEDICA- 
VI T AGATHANGELVS. 
To JUPITER THE THUNDERER FOR EVER be 
REVERENCE AGATHANGELVS DEDICATED to 
him this covered bed. 
For the correfpondent Greek infcription, as it ap- 
pears on the flone, fee Tab. I. 
Remarks on the Palmyrene Infcription. 
i. That Baal, the great divinity of Syria and 
Phoenicia, anfwered to the ZEYE of the Greeks, 
and the jupiter of the Latins, as we find intimated 
by the two infcriptions before me, is acknowledged by 
fo me 
