 ... of the engraver, or out of that affectation of antiquity and love of variety which caused the cuneiform characters in the so-called hieratic writing of Nineveh to be modified at the pleasure of the scribe. The age of Sargon would agree well with historical...  Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology - Page 281by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1879 - 478 pages
...while the overthrow of Carchemish and the last relics of Hittite power in BC 717 would, he thought, naturally lead to the disuse of the Hittite mode of...cuneiform characters employed by the Assyrian conquerors. The name of the king was compared by Dr. Mordtmann with that of the Kilikian King TapKovSi'fiorov and... | |
 | William Wright - 1884 - 274 pages
...character (which ought to be ^^JJ) has been slightly changed in form, either through the unskilfulness of the engraver, or out of that affectation of antiquity...connection with each other ; and that it is on the Kyprian stele' of Sargon that the peculiar form of the last character found on the boss recurs, while... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1142 pages
...AV. ; while the overthrow of Carchemish and the last relics of Hittite power in BC 717 naturally led to the disuse of the Hittite mode of writing, and...cuneiform characters employed by the Assyrian conquerors. The well-known passage in Pliny (HN vii. .07), ' Literas semper aroitror Assyrias fuisse ; sed alii... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1140 pages
...W. ; while the overthrow of Carchemish and the last relics of Hittite power in BC 717 naturally led to the disuse of the Hittite mode of writing, and...cuneiform characters employed by the Assyrian conquerors. The well-known passage in Ph'ny (HN vii. 57), ' Literas semper arbitror Assyrias fuisse ; sed alii... | |
| |
