Report of the Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Orientalists Held in London, 1874Trübner, 1874 - 67 pages |
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... characters and different Oriental types , an expensive and difficult process . It would not , indeed , effect this for languages written with syllabic characters , but for those only which have an alphabetic one , and the same mode of ...
... characters and different Oriental types , an expensive and difficult process . It would not , indeed , effect this for languages written with syllabic characters , but for those only which have an alphabetic one , and the same mode of ...
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... characters , for the Cuneiform inscriptions include some certainly not of the Semitic family . But the mass of the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylon are Semitic , and the characters and languages were extant from above twenty ...
... characters , for the Cuneiform inscriptions include some certainly not of the Semitic family . But the mass of the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylon are Semitic , and the characters and languages were extant from above twenty ...
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... characters gradu- ally developing from the pure pictorial into the conventional cuneiform ; but no Egyptian inscriptions , as yet discovered , are written exclusively , or even mainly , in hieroglyphs used as pictures only in ...
... characters gradu- ally developing from the pure pictorial into the conventional cuneiform ; but no Egyptian inscriptions , as yet discovered , are written exclusively , or even mainly , in hieroglyphs used as pictures only in ...
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... character , the learned visitors separating themselves into groups , each studying different objects of interest . At 2.30 P.M. the Orientalists assembled in the Rooms of the Royal Society of Literature , 4 , St. Martin's Place ...
... character , the learned visitors separating themselves into groups , each studying different objects of interest . At 2.30 P.M. the Orientalists assembled in the Rooms of the Royal Society of Literature , 4 , St. Martin's Place ...
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... characters of doubtful power , while the vernacular names of the gods , which enter so largely into the composition of Babylonian and Assyrian proper names , and are thus essential to historical identification , are for the most part ...
... characters of doubtful power , while the vernacular names of the gods , which enter so largely into the composition of Babylonian and Assyrian proper names , and are thus essential to historical identification , are for the most part ...
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