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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 293

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corroborated pictoriallyby the subject of the piece before me, was sub-stantially correct. I had completed, however,this part of the decypherment, and that, also, ofa second central inscription, in which the sameking is represented under the symbol of a pelican,feeding its young from its beak and… … ^ 4E SHEPMERO C • THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. 257 end, by the royal shepherd, and, attached, at theother, to the near forelegs of the three calves.The light, now, at once broke in: the objectscould no longer be a mystery; they were, simply,the iron tether-pins, with revolving rings at top,with which,…

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