Re: Assyrian character
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 18:08 |
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On Sun, 26 May 2002 17:08:53 +0000 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> When I earlier today, like any normal twenty-year old, was reading my
> pocket
> edition of Thucydides, I found a passage (Book IV, ch 50) in which
> an Persian envoy is said to have letters written in "assyrian
> character". Would that mean Cuneiform?
> Andreas
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The first thing i thought of is that it could mean something like the
modern (post-Babylonian Exile) Hebrew alphabet, which is refered to in
Jewish religious sources as _ashurit_ "Assyrian", as opposed to _`ivrit_
"Hebrew" which refers to the old alphabet which was more similar to the
Phonecian alphabet.
-Stephen (Steg)
"aroo"