Research Catalog

Title

Ancient alphabets / compiled by Robert H. Pfeiffer.

Author

Pfeiffer, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1892-1958

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Semitic Museum, Harvard University, 1947.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Harvard Semitic Museum

Description

1 v. (13 plates); 28 cm.

Subject

Alphabet

Note

• Originally prepared for a special exhibit in the Semitic Museum during the celebration of the Harvard University Tercentennial in 1936.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early Sumerian linear writing (about 2500 B.C.) -- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet -- From an inscription of Thotmes III (c. 1500 B.C.) -- Standard Assyrian cuneiform writing (about 650 B.C.) -- The creation of the gods -- Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet of about 1500 B.C. (discovered at Ras Shamra, Phoenicia, in 1928) -- Ugaritic text from Ras Shamra, from a mythological poem on the death of Baal -- Ancient Persian cuneiform alphabet (about 520 B.C.) -- A text in the ancient Persian alphabet, the beginning of the inscription of Darius, King of Persia (521 -- 486 B.C.), on the rock of Behistun -- Proto-Sinaitic alphabet (ca. 1700 B.C.) -- Old Phoenician alphabet (ca. 1200 B.C.) -- North Semitic alphabets : Phoenician-Hebrew, Aramaic, Palmyrene Syriac, Square Hebrew -- South Semitic alphabets : English, Nabatean, Cuphic, Sabean, Arabic, Ethiopic -- Greek and Latin alphabets : Phoenician, Theroean, Ionic, Modern, Etruscan, Roman.

OCLC

• 2031146
• SCSB-11257289

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library