Category: History - Ancient
Typographical errors in the original have been maintained in this version. They are marked with a [TN-#]. A list of the errors is found at the end of the present text.
Taking up first the central figures, section _e_, we find in each a standing figure, with ceremonial headdress of varying character, offering a dragon’s head (a universal symbol...
3. Part 3Pages 21 and 22 again, judging from the coloring and the arrangement, seem to form a pair. Each had on the upper part probably five rows of glyphs, some 70 in all, of which only...
5. Part 5Thus we may lay down as our fundamental proposition that a hieroglyphic form of writing is better fitted to, and must properly, in the period of its natural development, accompa...
4. Part 4Writing is a system of conventional forms with established meanings, corresponding to and reflecting the structure of the spoken language; some picture elements whose value as s...
1. Part 1Typographical errors in the original have been maintained in this version. They are marked with a [TN-#]. A list of the errors is found at the end of the present text.
6. Part 6[42-*] “In ethnology however one troubles oneself little with the detail of linguistic structure. It is held quite sufficient to gather from different peoples and collate a coup...