. The Philistines : their history and civilization. likely, therefore, from the largeness of this numberthat we have to deal with a STjllaharij rather than an alphabet. I have discussed this inscription in a paper contributed to theProceedings of the Royal Irish Academy,- to which I must refer thereader for the full investigation. Its special importance for ourpresent purpose is based upon the fact that the most frequently usedcharacter, a mans head with a plumed head-dress, has from the 1 Zeitscin: der D. ^f. O. xxxi, pp. 4jl, 2 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xxx, section C
. The Philistines : their history and civilization. likely, therefore, from the largeness of this numberthat we have to deal with a STjllaharij rather than an alphabet. I have discussed this inscription in a paper contributed to theProceedings of the Royal Irish Academy,- to which I must refer thereader for the full investigation. Its special importance for ourpresent purpose is based upon the fact that the most frequently usedcharacter, a mans head with a plumed head-dress, has from the 1 Zeitscin: der D. ^f. O. xxxi, pp. 4jl, 2 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. xxx, section C, p. 342. G 2 84 THE SCHWEICH LECTURES, 1911 moment of its first discovery been recognized as identical in type withthe plumed head-dresses of the Philistine captives pictured at iNIedinetHabu. This character appears only at the heginnings of words, fromwhich I infer that it is not a phonetic sign, but a determinative,most probably denoting personal names. Assuming this, it nextappears that Face II consists of a list of personal names. Hepresent-. Fig. 4 A. The IMiaestos Disk (Face 1). ing each character by a letter, which is to be regarded as a merealgebraic svmbol and not a phonetic sign, we may write the inscriptionon the disk in this form : Face I (Fig. 4 a).M^X.^^ S/3hw Mu^c xrjs logf pCai taxi /^htacrXnFr\ hosw M(|vj srjya noogw pzir nla dwjxl IM-sanvhf nft n/3h xnvhf sm^?/ hrrw h/Sh \\C,<t8 xnvhfTTOXrh Mdw^h \\m(i] j-ih THE CULTURE OF THE PHILISTINES 85 Face II (Fi<^. -1 n): written as a list of M^tao- 8ff n^h nnm 2. Mfbsf s/3hf S(/)f 3. Mfd(r(<|)) kqw 4. M^rrw arsh 5. ^I^Cy XK MsrjA^o- pa M^kq X ^. t: 4^ ?t \i X
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