The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . VogOe, Melanges dArchdblogie Orientale,p. 127, and pi. vi., No. 24). * Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an intaglio engraved in Cesnola, Cyprus, pp. 310,372; , Eistoire deIArt dans IAntiquity, vol. iii. p. 044. The Plia;nician figures of Horus andThot which I have reproduced were pointed out to me by my friend Ilermont-Gauneau. He is the Taautos of Sanchoniathon : Taauros, 6s flpe tV Tiir TrpuTuv cttoixs yptKpV, oAiyvTTTioi &aiie, AAf^aySpeTs Si ©luM, EXATji-es 5e Ep^)v fKoAeirai ( OF Byblos, Frag. 1,§ 11,in M
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . VogOe, Melanges dArchdblogie Orientale,p. 127, and pi. vi., No. 24). * Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an intaglio engraved in Cesnola, Cyprus, pp. 310,372; , Eistoire deIArt dans IAntiquity, vol. iii. p. 044. The Plia;nician figures of Horus andThot which I have reproduced were pointed out to me by my friend Ilermont-Gauneau. He is the Taautos of Sanchoniathon : Taauros, 6s flpe tV Tiir TrpuTuv cttoixs yptKpV, oAiyvTTTioi &aiie, AAf^aySpeTs Si ©luM, EXATji-es 5e Ep^)v fKoAeirai ( OF Byblos, Frag. 1,§ 11,in MiLLER-DiDOT, Frag. Hist, arxcorum, vol. iii. p. 567; cf. Frag. 1, § 4, p. 564: Frag. 5, p. 570;Frag. 9, pp. 571-573); El, having conquered the world, gave Thot as a king to the Egyptians(Philo of Bydlos, Frag. 2, § 27, in Mcller-Didot, op. cit, vol. iii. p. 579). The principal passagesin ancient authors bearing upon this god have been collected and annotated by Movers, DiePhonizier, pp. 500-502, of. pp. 89-92. HO BUS—THOT AND THE ALPHABET. 573. THE rHCEXlClAS THOT. his new country all the power of his voice and all the subtilty of hismind. He occupied there also the position of scribe and enchanter, as hehad done at Thebes, Memphis, Thinis, and before the chief of each Helio-politan Ennead. He became the usual adviser of El-Kronos at Byblos, ashe had been of Osiris and Horus ; lie composed charmsfor him, and formulae which increased the warlike zealof his partisans; he prescribed the form and insigniaof the god and of his attendant deities, and camefinally to be considered as the inventor of letters.^ The?epoch, indeed, in which he became a naturalisedPhoenician coincides approximately with a fundamentalrevolution in the art of writing—that in whicli a simpleand rapid stenography was substituted for tlie compli-cated and tedious systems with which the empires ofthe ancient world had been content from their , Sidon, Byblos, Arvad, had employed up to this perio
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