The Serâbît Inscriptions: II. The Decipherment and Significance of the Inscriptions
@article{Butin1928TheSI,
title={The Ser{\^a}b{\^i}t Inscriptions: II. The Decipherment and Significance of the Inscriptions},
author={Romain F. Butin},
journal={Harvard Theological Review},
year={1928},
volume={21},
pages={9 - 67}
}Beginning with Flinders Petrie scholars have been struck by the similarity between the script of these inscriptions and the Egyptian hieroglyphs. As the inscriptions were found in the neighborhood of numerous Egyptian monuments, an attempt was naturally made to read them as in the Egyptian language; but this proved unsuccessful, and it was evident that although the signs show close relationship with hieroglyphs, the language is not Egyptian. On Sinai, it was natural to think of a Semitic…
20 Citations
The Prehistory of Albania
- History
- 1982
The Italians discovered the first traces of Palaeolithic life in Albania, and also some cave-dwellings containing Neolithic deposits. It is only in the last thirty-five years that it has been…
The Stone Age in the Central Balkan Area
- Environmental Science
- 1982
This chapter deals with the prehistory of countries: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania. In the central part of the Balkan Peninsula the easiest crossing of the watershed between the Aegean Sea and…
The Neo-Hittite states in Syria and Anatolia
- History
- 1982
After c. 700, occasional references are found in classical authors to notable events in Anatolia and Syria. Since the chronological framework of the history of the Syro-Hittite states is dependent on…
Pharaonic Ventures into South Sinai: El-Markha Plain Site 346
- Environmental Science
- 2003
The objectives of the University of Toronto expedition to South Sinai include tracing pharaonic routes to the turquoise and copper mining region, investigating pharaonic and indigenous camps, mines,…
References
SHOWING 1-3 OF 3 REFERENCES