. The eastern nations and Greece. < Fig. 39. Table showing the Development of the Cuneiform Writing (After A/ug) the earlier with the later forms of the characters (Fig. 39). TheBabylonians never developed the system beyond the syllabic stage 56 EARLY CITY-KINGDOMS OF BABYLONIA [§53. (sect. ii). They employed a syllabary of between four and five hundred signs.^ This mode of writing was in use among the peoples of western Asia from before 3000 down to the first century of our for three thousand years it was justsuch an important factor in the earlier civili-zations of the a
. The eastern nations and Greece. < Fig. 39. Table showing the Development of the Cuneiform Writing (After A/ug) the earlier with the later forms of the characters (Fig. 39). TheBabylonians never developed the system beyond the syllabic stage 56 EARLY CITY-KINGDOMS OF BABYLONIA [§53. (sect. ii). They employed a syllabary of between four and five hundred signs.^ This mode of writing was in use among the peoples of western Asia from before 3000 down to the first century of our for three thousand years it was justsuch an important factor in the earlier civili-zations of the ancient world as the Phoeni-cian alphabet in its various forms has beenduring the last three thousand years in thecivilizations of all the peoples of culture,save those of eastern Asia. 53. Books and Archives. The writingmaterial of the Babylonians was usuallyclay tablets of various sizes. Those holdingcontracts of special importance, after hav-ing been once written upon and baked,were covered with a thin coating of clay,and then the matter was written in dupli-cate and the tablets again baked. If theouter writing were defaced by accident or altered by design, the removal of the outer coating would at once show the true text. The tablets were carefully preserved in great public archi
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