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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 212

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f this double tablet, we have thefigures of a woman and a serpent: the womanin the very act here foretold, piercing with aspear the serpents head. On the right, thesymbols change, to a hawk-headed god, and aprostrate human figure: the god, in like action,piercing the mans head with a spear.… … N 4 184 THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. diiitely produced the sense expressed by theaction: viz. ^^., iiabah, Sibilavit serpens, Tohiss (as a serpent); and \, aj, Impetum fecit inliostem, Making an attack on an enemy. But afurther sense of a;, and here surely the true sense,identifies the subject of this…

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