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...third illustrated public lecture on Babylonian Books, Professor Lyon spoke of the script and the language...
...cuneiform script was employed by several nations in western Asia, including the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Persians. It was at first a picture writing, like the Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest...
Babylonian Books. Their language and script. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...reading of these books may no longer be called decipherments, because the great facts of the script and the language are now well known. The working out of the nicer details of the grammar, the enlargement of our knowledge of the vocabulary, the discovery and publication of new books, the interpretation of the multitude of facts contained in the Babylonian books regarding early history, religion and art-these are the delightful tasks before the students of today...
...MONDAY.Babylonian Books. Their language and script. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...