The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents
including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia.
With illustrative plates, a harmonized table of alphabets, glossaries, and translations. By the Reverend Charles Foster.

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Main Author

Forster, Charles, d. 1871.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : R. Bentley, 1851-54.

Subjects

Alphabet.
Egyptian language > Egyptian language / Writing.
Semitic languages.
Inscriptions, Semitic.
Inscriptions > Inscriptions / Egypt > Inscriptions / Egypt / Sinai.

Note

Fold. table has title : A harmony of primeval alphabets.

Physical Description

3 v. fronts., illus., plates (part fold.) 23 cm.

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