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NEW ALPHABET FOUND.

Script of a Semitic Language.

BELONGING TO 1300 B.C.

THE CHIN A MAIL.

Ras

clues have not been fitting on to INVECTIVE AGAINST

the Sinaitic trail.

1

AMERICA.

Sinclair Lewis Lets Loose a Broadside.

The first event was the Anding In 1925 of the sarcophagus of Ahiram, King of Byblos, the Gabal of the Old Testament. This ahowed us the Phoenician alpha-) bat in the thirteenth century, five- Lundred years older than the

New York, Jan. 14. [Stelo of Mesha, King of Moab,

Sinclair "Red" Lawls, of "Main which had stood first for fifty Street," "Babbitt" and other great queer, was complete. years; and the alphabet, though American gargoyles, burst lesso

with a broadside in Stockholm Last year, again at Bybles, was while being crowned King of found what seems to be a mixture

American Hterature, says the Asso-

Recent

At excavations Shamra, where, last year, tableta bearing cuneiform inscriptions of a character new to epigraphists were discovered, have brought to of ideograms and phonetle aymciated Press. light the interesting fact that a bols. We cannot yet read it, but purely alphabetic script was be it appears to belong

The general feding on the part ing applied to a Semitic language when men could not trust them-Lewis' invective against the cul- to a stagnef litteratuers here was that Mr in about the thirteenth century selves to expressing the sound ural institutions of this country before Christ. The new inscrip-alone, but must add tions are written in a much sim-to make assurance sure,

the pleturo was hardly worth noticing. pled form of

the cuneiform traditional pictures for certaigdemy of arts and latters, notable Members of the American sea. script, which reduces its hundreds words. of syllable signs to twenty-eight alphabetical letters.

or used

among the home grown institutions; Every different proportion of side-awiped by Mr. Lewis, denledi sound and picture comes in writ any desire to comment on the While, therefore. as Mr. C. J.ings like Egyptian. Babylonian, or rather dusty and priggish charac Gadd, assistant keeper of Egyptian Japanese. But we may have 11 and Aasyrian Antiquities in the forerunner

ter for which the currently cele- of the alphabet, not brated Nobel author British Museum, pointed out re-

cast them, more than a century older than Their voices had a far away tone. cently, says the Observer, the new Aliram, discovery does not in itself prove

Some, of them gave the Impres The Latest -Find. that the Phoenician alphabet From

sion that the name of Sinclair The latest find from which the Greek, and hence our Shamra and ita harbour, Minet-el-sound, a sound they faintly recall.

Ray Lewis had

a distinctly foreign lown alphabet, was directly form-

ed, was in use in the thirteenth Latakia, on the Syrian coast,

Dedia,

eight miles north of ed having heard somewhere or century, it does show that the al- the most surprising. Many tablets knew Mr. Lewis all too well. so well is other. Ore member implied he phabetic idea had then been dis-and inscriptions have been covered, and renders it by so

in fact that he "wouldn't touch him much the more likely that the covered with signs made up of the with a ten-foot pole." Phoenician alphabet itself may the signs only number twenty-roll call of as many members of Familiar cuneiform strokes, but The general impression from aj have been already invented, 19 the finders of the Ahriram

the academy as could be reached cophagus supposed.

dis.

sar-eight, so it is evident that we have

to do with an alphabet.

The Persians likewise construct In the following article on New

ed an alphabet of Alphabets. Professor Ellis H.

cuneiform strokes, but this had more than Minns, Dianey Frofessor of Ar- chaeology in Cambridge Univer- forty letters, including therein vowels. True Semites, the mea sity, comments on these and past discoveries and their significance,

of Ras Shamra, only expressed and speaks of the further hopes consonants; but an alphabet gives the Anding of the new lnscriptiona ерепа ир.

The Alphabet Puzzle.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931.

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TO George Jean Nathan, author and critic, took a different view, how-Transfigure to the interpreter (as we aver. He foes not think this sort saw in the cases of Persian and of literary babbitry should go un- carly Turk), and the key has been answered.

hope

found. 'Five bronze picks boro "The lamentation so often ven- the same inscription, save that lated by incompetent and dis- one had one word of four lettera gruntled craftsmen."

says Mr. prefixed to it.

Nathan, "that the United States treats artists badly is hardly borne out by the noticeable affluence of most of them, by the exaggerated

Professor Buner, of Halle, saw that this must be the Hebrew GRIZeN, used on the inscription

It is always A mystery why people do crossword puzzles. In them we are at the mercy of man who is setting us traps, and the unfair thing is that if he makes a mistake in the man- ner of his setting it is we--that of Hezekiah's workmen when they amount of attention they get from suffer by the puzzle becoming cut the tunnel leading to the Pool the public Press, and by the It is quite differ of Siloam and met each other abundance of invitations, they re- more difficult. ent when we have to deal with "Pick to Pick, garzen el garzen.'ceive το dinners, banquets, writings which were meant to be It did not take much more search women's club teas, cinema open- plain, but of which we have lost to get out Rab Kohenim, "chiefings, lecture platforms, blindfold the key. Of course there are mis- of the priests," familiar words we tests for

booze cigarettes and takes or gaps in these which give have still in Rabbi and the Jewish parties on ocean liners. a great deal of trouble, but an name Cohen. The alphabet must "I have grave doubts that in any the thing is not an elaborate trap have been a conscious invention, other country in the world is a we can forgive the mistakes.

urising among other equally con- meritorious artist so rewarded and scious attempts, and, superseded petted as he is in this one, and I by one more suitabald for other entertain even graver doubts that materials than clay.

he would not be much better off it well-intentioned dots would leave him alone, allow him to keep his mind solely on his work, and so permit him to function in peace and quiet to his greater glory.

And we have no end to our problems. They were not ended by the great triumphs of the last century, the decipherment

An Eple Poem. Egyptian hieroglyphics and the This year's discoveries have still more wonderful decipherment added a dictionary an epic

QUS

of

and

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of cuneiform-still more wonder-pcem, and there may be quite a ful because it was done without literature, perhaps the works of a bilingual, merely by guessing at Sanchoniathon, the Phenician poet, the names of the Persian kings, of whom the Greeks speak, and in and then the language turned out whom the nineteenth century did to be old Persian, At once it not believe. He lived about the gave the key to Babylonian, a fourteenth century B.C., and this Semitic language. and this to is about the date to which the Elamite and Vannie, more mysteri- prosperity of Sapuna may be re-

as languages, but the deferred. The name Sapuna has lect is not at the hands of what cipherers had plenty to go upon.

been recovered from the tablets may be called, the average" Ameri- Queer Scripts of China.

and occurs in Assyrian records. cans of wealth, Americana The next advance was in Can-It seems to have been destroyed spicuous in public affairs, Ameri- tral and Eastern Asia. There are ment of the "Peoples of the Sea." society and Americans who might about the time of the great move-cans of position in what is dubbed queer scripts on the edges of China, Lolo and

But the discoveries open up fur-be presumed, however erroneously Moso in the ther hopes. The civilisation of to have some breeding, discrimin south-west, and formerly Tangut Sapuna is strongly marked by tion and taste. in the north-west. The first two Mycenaean. clements; it seems to are still used, but no European have been an estrepot for trade

The usera of

between the Aegean by Cyprus the latter were wiped out by with hither Asia. May we hope Chingiz Khan, but one

occasions. that it will yield the bilingual Sunrise and Sunset in people can rend their writing which shall interpret for as the (Professor Pelliot, in Paris, and records of Gnossos?'

has learned them.

Mr. Ivanov, in Leningrad).

or two

Upper Asis was the next region: "Thomsen's interpretation without a proper bilingual of the Inscrip- tions of the Early Turks in Mon, golia, deserves to rank with the The first steps in cuneiform.

many languages discovered in Eastern Turklatan wore -all written in Indian scripts, and con- tained large portions of the Bud- dhist Canan. That was a great combination of

help, though the learning that had

crated upon them,

to be concen- was truly as-

tounding Sanskrit and Iranian, Turkish and Chinese..

Next the scene of conflict shift- éd to Asia Minor; of the seven languages used in the Hittite capital, Boghaz Kol, rome were known, others new, but with re- semblances to such familiar tongues as Latin, others like, no- thing on earth except perhaps the proverbially impossible Caucasian- groups. But the hieroglyphics of Hittite, like those of Minoan Crete, still baffle us completely. Genesis of Our Own Alphabet. But all these things, to say. no- thing of Mays in America, are in a seaso, out of the way. We are not tempted to see in them any true connection with our own al-

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