CONTENTS
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Introductory i 1. Ancestry of the Alphabets re The Phœnicians 3 2. Alphabetic Letters in Pre-dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories thereon 5 3. How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was discovered 9 4. The Alphabetic Vowel and Consonantal Signs in Sumerian Writing 10 5. The so-called "Aphonic Owner's Mark" Signs of Pre-dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt are Sumerian linear Pictograms 12 6. Comparative Alphabetic Tables showing Sumerian Origin and Evolution of the Alphabetic Letters 14 7. Individual Letters and their Evolution from Sumerian Parents 23 8. Names of the Letters and Objects pictured 55 9. Order of the Alphabet or ABC and Numeral Values of Letters 56 10. Authorship of the Alphabetic System and Date 61 11. Some Historical Effects of the Discoveries 70 Abbreviations for References vii
Index 75
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