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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 302

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a]. We now arrive at the first storehouse, stall,or booth of the bazaar. There occur two words facing it. They readand render thus ,U!„ raman, 1. A pomegranate,or 2. from its resemblance to the pomegranate,the iceight of a pair of scales or balance withwhich other things are weighed. Opposite… … c 3 8 — II c 1 o s< O . ^ a ij Q ;= 3 Q i. a 3 J I 3 = 2 g £ - K ^ 266 THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. The second word is ,£,, or A^,, ras or rasas:find its definition, Piled up eggs. Below thisword, in the storehouse, stands, accordingly, abasket of eggs. Within the store occur five words, apart…

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