Re: Saprutum Script

I don't know the best way to view PS files in Windows. Some graphics
packages will open them, but the resolution may not be very good.

Anyway I've just put a picture of the dog's gravestone at the top of
my grammar page, so this will give a general impression of the script
(without punctuation). N.b. You can write from right to left if you
like, just flip all the letter shapes over to their mirror images.

http://home.clara.net/carrot/saprutum/grammar.html

As regards the Punic text, the full phrase was :

WBN 'NK HQRT Z glossed as "And I built this city"

No other words have an H prefixed, masc. pls end in -M, fem. sing. in -T
fem. pl. in -YT (-WT* might have been expected given Heb. [-o:T]) and
adjectives agree at least in gender with their nouns, so if the Z is
really a demonstrative it should perhaps have been ZT ???

See attached gif file, oh, sorry, I flipped it to read left to right.

Keith

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