. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 676 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. This pillar is placed on two lions of stone, which were found at the same time and in the same place, and which evidently had formed part of the monument. These lions were loaned for this purpose by their,owner, M. de Clercq, who kindly gave permission to make the casts of the pillar, and as- sisted in the reconstruction of the monument. It might be of interest aud value to continue this history of writi
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 676 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. This pillar is placed on two lions of stone, which were found at the same time and in the same place, and which evidently had formed part of the monument. These lions were loaned for this purpose by their,owner, M. de Clercq, who kindly gave permission to make the casts of the pillar, and as- sisted in the reconstruction of the monument. It might be of interest aud value to continue this history of writing by quotations or condensations from the latest literature upon the subject, among which might be mentioned the history of the alpha- bet by Canon Isaac Taylor, Kosny's Les Ecritures Figuratives des Dif- ferents Penples Anciens et Modernes, and Essai sur la Propagation de 1'Alphabet Phenicien dans l'Ancien Monde, by M. Francois Lenormant, but the purpose of this paper being rather a report upon anthropology at the French Exposition, would not admit thereof. I can not, how- ever, conclude this sub- ject without calling to the attention of the reader the late discoveries made by Flinders Petrie at Kahun in the Fayum, Egypt, of many hundred specimens of marks or characters upon the pot- tery, and occasionally Tupon the wooden toys, \ J I \\_ ornaments, or imple- \ / \ mj ments found by him and w assigned to the period of the twelfth dynasty, 2600 B. C, and identified by the pyramids built by I have mentioned those marks in my description of these. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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