Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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... century B.C .; and it is not improbable that they had acquired it even one or two centuries earlier . Trading stations and colonies of the Phoenicians , pressed at home by the advancing conquests of the Hebrews , were established in ...
... century B.C .; and it is not improbable that they had acquired it even one or two centuries earlier . Trading stations and colonies of the Phoenicians , pressed at home by the advancing conquests of the Hebrews , were established in ...
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... century B.C. About the same time the long o began to be distinguished by various signs , that used by the Ionians , the omega , , being apparently either a differentiation of the omikron , or , as has been suggested , taken from the ...
... century B.C. About the same time the long o began to be distinguished by various signs , that used by the Ionians , the omega , , being apparently either a differentiation of the omikron , or , as has been suggested , taken from the ...
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... century B.C. With regard to the local alphabets of Greece , different The Greek and Latin Alphabets . 7.
... century B.C. With regard to the local alphabets of Greece , different The Greek and Latin Alphabets . 7.
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... century B.C. A notable excep- tion , however , is found in the famous Greek inscription at Abu Simbel - the earliest to which a date can be given . It is cut on one of the legs of the colossal statues which guard the entrance of the ...
... century B.C. A notable excep- tion , however , is found in the famous Greek inscription at Abu Simbel - the earliest to which a date can be given . It is cut on one of the legs of the colossal statues which guard the entrance of the ...
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... century B.C. its want was not felt , as C was em- ployed to represent both the hard c and g sounds , ' a 3 On a small vase found in Rome in 1880. See L'Inscription de Duenos in the Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire of the École ...
... century B.C. its want was not felt , as C was em- ployed to represent both the hard c and g sounds , ' a 3 On a small vase found in Rome in 1880. See L'Inscription de Duenos in the Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire of the École ...
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