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 (1851)
Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 190
nthis cartouche to fix the sense, the reading is necessarily uncertain. Col.Vyse, however, has discovered a third example of the same cartouche,upon the roof of the chamber ; with some characters, and the hieroglyphicof an ostrich, attached to it. This discovery, perhaps, affords someprospect of… … The ostrich, here, is the determinative. The words in the cartouchetherefore, may read ,^1,«£. ^J^»,.^, auhaj iljaj, The fleet ostrich: as thewords below, certainly, will read ^\j ), aj nam, Runs, partly run- ning, partly flying, the ostrich, with rustling sound ; viz. *, aj, Cucurrit, seu…
Inscriptions -- Egypt Sinai · Inscriptions, Semitic · Semitic languages · Egyptian language -- Writing · Alphabet
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