This is the most Ancient Inscription I met with in _Tadmor_, the 314th. Year from the Death of _Alexander_ the Great, preceding the Birth of our Saviour about Ten Years. The other also is between Twenty and Thirty Years before the Reign of _Hadrian_, and consequently before the _Romans_ got footing here. And from these sumptuous Structures, and these costly _Mausolæa_, we may reasonably conclude, they were a Potent and Opulent People, before they became subject to the _Romans_, and were not obliged to them for their Greatness. And now I believe I have wearied you sufficiently by leading you up and down the Ancient and Famous City of _Tadmor_, and giving you so dry an Account of our Employment there. After 4 Days stay we returned, not the way that we came, but proceeding Eastward towards the River _Euphrates_. In our way to which, the third Day, passing though a Village called _Tieve_, upon a Stone set wrong End upwards, in the midst of the Wall of the Mosch, we met with the following Inscription. ΔΙΙ ΜΕΓΙΣΤΩ ΚΕΡΑΥΝΙΩ ΥΠΕΡ ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΣ ΤΡΑ: ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΥ ΣΕΒ... ΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΑΓΑΘΑΝΓΕΛΟΣ ΑΒΙΛΗΝΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΕΚΑΠΟΛΕΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΜΑΡΑΝ ΩΚΟΔΟΜΗΣΕΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΚΛΙΝΗ.... ΕΞ ΙΔΙΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ ΕΤΟΥΣ ΕΜΥ ΜΗΝΟΣ ΛΩΟΥ. And under this was another in the same Language and Character we had seen at _Tadmor_; I was surprized to find such an Inscription in this Place, nor can any way guess how they should come by it: And the mention of _Decapolis_ makes me still more in the Dark. If one might extend the Bounds of _Decapolis_, as some are said to have done, as far as _Cælosyria_, and comprize under this Name again all _Syria_, _Phænicia_ only excepted, then need it not be brought from elsewhere, but first set up in this Village. But this will not be allowed by those who make _Decapolis_ only a part of _Palestine_. The Matter of Fact it contains is only an Account of the Magnificence of this _Agathangelus Abilenus_, whoever he was; who for the safety of the Emperor _Hadrian_, erected at his own Charges, and Dedicated to _Jupiter_ the Thunderer, a Royal Banquetting-House, (for so I take [17]ΚΑΜΑΡΑ to signifie) and a Bed of State; for after ΚΛΙΝΗ there is doubtless a Letter omitted, and it ought to be ΚΛΙΝΗΝ. The Date 445 agrees to the Year of our Lord 123. which was the seventh of the Reign of _Hadrian_. And the Month ΛΩΟΣ is our _August_. [Sidenote: _Arsoffa._] The next Day we past by the Ruins of a large Monastery of the _Maronites_, as I guess it to have been by an Inscription we met with upon the Capitals of several Marble Pillars, which supported the middle Isle of a handsome Church, which was to this effect. † ΕΠΙ ΣΕΡΓΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟ. ΤΟΥ ΣΥΝΓΕΝ~ ΜΑΡΩΝΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΧΩΡΕΠΙΣΚΟ.