[15] The inscription, which is difficult to read, connects the structure with Shalmat the queen, daughter of Ma’nu, who cannot be identified with certainty, and refers to some image(s), which probably excited the pious vandalism of the Arabs.
[16] Nebo and Bel (Doctr. Addai, 31) may come from the Old Testament (Burkitt).
[17] S.B.A.W., 1904, 910 ff.
[18] So, e.g. F.C. Burkitt, Early Eastern Christianity, 72.
[19] Marquart, Ostasiat. und osteurop. Streitzüge, 292 ff.
[20] Marquart, op. cit.
[21] Some one found time, however, to produce the oldest dated MS. of a portion of the Bible in any language.
[22] The counts were: Baldwin I. (1098), Baldwin II. (1100), Joscelin I. (1119), Joscelin II. (1131-1147).
[23] Pictures in Burkitt, Early East. Christ., frontispiece; P.S.B.A. xxviii. 151 f.; J.R. Harris, The Heavenly Twins.