. The Holman new self-pronouncing Sunday-school teachers Bible . s. Paros. />^^ Siphnos. etc ** periodfofcigtiletters er I y z f /-N used generally for*? ^ «>. , c;icopt mwnia-l Plate AND LATIN ALPHABETS. The Greeks adopted for their alphabet twenty-two signs from the Phoenician. The letters which followtai< were afterwards added. Originally the letters were written from right to left; but afterwards fromleft to right. The early Greek alphabet may be arranged in tM-o groups (with local varieties), viz. theEastern or Ionian, used in Asia Minor and in certain islands and st
. The Holman new self-pronouncing Sunday-school teachers Bible . s. Paros. />^^ Siphnos. etc ** periodfofcigtiletters er I y z f /-N used generally for*? ^ «>. , c;icopt mwnia-l Plate AND LATIN ALPHABETS. The Greeks adopted for their alphabet twenty-two signs from the Phoenician. The letters which followtai< were afterwards added. Originally the letters were written from right to left; but afterwards fromleft to right. The early Greek alphabet may be arranged in tM-o groups (with local varieties), viz. theEastern or Ionian, used in Asia Minor and in certain islands and states of Greece ; and the Western, usedin other islands and states, and generally in the Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily. The two groups chieflydiflTered in the value to be attached to the letters X ^^^ */•• The early Italic alphabet, derived from theWestern Greek alphabet, has been called the Pelasgian alphabet; of this the Latin alphabet rejectedcertain letters as superfluous, and at a later date it introduced others. V He])rew (square character) Plate ROSETTA STONE/* A slab of black basalt, bearings an inscription decreed between the years 198-195 bythe priests of Memphis in honour of Ptolemy V. Epiphanes, king of Egypt, in recognitionof the bene6ts conferred by him upon his subjects. It was discovered among the ruins of afort near the Rosetta mouth of the Nile in 1799, and came into the possession of the British,< Museum in 1801, after the capitulation of Alexandria. The inscription is in the Egyptianand Greek languages; the Egjptian portion being in hieroglyphics or writing of the priests,and in demotic or writing of the people. The key to the decipherment of the Egyptianhieroglyphics and the interpretation of the Egyptian language uas obtained from this in-scription, a part of the hieroglyphic alphabet being recovered from the royal names whichare enclosed in oval rings or * cartouches. It was ordered that a the decree shouldbe set up in e
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