Word: script
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LOST, between Divinity and Memorial Halls, a Harvard silk flag with script letters in silk. Will finder kindly notify R. E. Olds...
Professor Lyon then briefly considered the scripts, the language, and the literature of the people. All the records that we have are preserved to us in writings on clay and stone. The script originally was a series of pictures; then it reached the syllabic form, and finally vowels were introduced although today in the Arabic newspapers vowels are seldom used...
Professor D. G. Lyon then gave a short address on the letters found in 1887 in the ruins of Amarna, half way between Thebes and Memphis. These letters, some 300 in number, deal with wars, invasions, etc., and usually begin with lengthy greetings. The writing is in the Babylonish script on clay tablets, some of which are remarkably well preserved. These tablets are of great importance as they serve to show the far reaching influence of Babylon on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...always a question as to how one shall find Cuneiform inscriptions, and how read them. They are found through Babylon and Assyria. Three years ago there wers found in Egypt some wonderful letters written about too B. C., in the Cuneiform script. The Old Testament aids us largely. It is a series of old letters written at about the time of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization. If certain persons had not found similar letters in the Persian language, it is probable it might never have been clear. Even then we might never have known the sequence of historical events...
After the inscriptions had been discovered the work of deciphering them was tremendous and would have been impossible if it had not been that in the sixth century before Christ the Persians reduced an alphabet from this Babylonian script. The recurrence of proper names afforded a chance to compare these records with known history, but the greatest advance in decipherment was made when an extensive inscription was discovered written parallel in Persian and Cuneiform characters. Stereopticon views were shown explaining the geography of the Assyria, pictures of the ruins, excavations and restorations, and facsimiles of the inscriptions discovered...