Identifier : struggleofnation00maspuoft ( find matches )
Title : The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year : 1896 ( 1890s )
Authors : Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects : History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher : London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library : Robarts - University of Toronto
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onum Semilicarum, \(i\. i. pi. iv. pp. 22-2G); the reasons advanced by Winckler(Geachichte Israeli, vol. i. p. 120) for dating! it in the time of Hiram II. have not been fully acceptedup to tho present. By placing the introduction of the alphabet somewhere between Amenothes IV.in the XV and Hiram I. in the X century before our era, and by taking the middle date betweenthem, say the accession of tho XXI dynasty towards the year 1100 B.C. for its invention or adoption,we cannot go far wrong oue way or the other. 574 THE RISE OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE. needs—Greeks and Europeans of the western IMediterranean on the one hand,and Semites of all kinds, Persians and Hindus on the other. It must haveoriginated between the end of the XVIir and the beginning of the XXPdynasties, and the existence of Pharaonic rule in Phoenicia during tliis periodhas led more than one modern scholar to assume that it developed underEgyptian influence.^ Some affirm that it is traceable directly to the hieroglyphs.
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while others seek for some intermediary in tlie shape of a cursive script,and find this in the Hieratic writing, which contains, they maintain, proto-types of all the Phoenician letters. Tables have been drawn up, showing at aglance the resemblances and differences which appear respectively to justifyor condemn their hypothesis. Perhaps the analogies would be more evidentand more numerous if we were in possession of inscriptions going back nearerto the date of origin.^ As it is, the divergencies are sufficiently striking to The hypothesis of an Egyptian origin, suggested casually by Champollion QLettre a M. Dacier,p. 80; of. Salvolini, Analyse grammaticale de Vinscription de Rosette, p. 86, et seq.), lias been ably•de.ilt with by E. de Rouge (^ilgmoire sur Voriginc ^gyptienne de VAlphabet Phenicien, read at theAcademy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 1859, criticised iu the Comptes Rendu$, 1859, vol. iii.pp. 115-12-1, and published in 1S74 by E. de Kouge). E. de Rouge derives t

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