A History of the Art of Writing
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IVI(A)L(A)K — 3. Tl. 'ACh(A)R. 'ABI | 1. I am Mesha, son of Kamoshmald, king of Moab, the D- 2. Ibonite | My father reigned over Moab thirty years, and I relgn- 3. ed after my father | THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET 295 The reader will note that the writing in this inscription is true alphabetic writing in the final stage; a development In the art of writing hitherto unknown in the East, where we have found only ideographic and syllabic writing, with the undeveloped alphabetic writing of the Persians.... Here on the shores of the Mediterranean in the 9th century B. c, we suddenly find, with no evident progenitor, a per- fected alphabet, in form, order and letter names nearly identical with our alphabet of to-day.^ Another inscription in the early Tyrian style of Phoenician writing, the oldest Phoenician inscription as yet discovered, is one engraved on some small fragments of a bronze bowl found on the Island of Cyprus (Fig.
96). The bowl was given by a "citizen of Carthage" (Newtown), In Phoenicia — not the later Tyrian colony in Africa — and doubtless was deposited In the Temple ,i,^)^±'j'l^-^:C'.
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IVI(A)L(A)K — 3. Tl. 'ACh(A)R. 'ABI | 1. I am Mesha, son of Kamoshmald, king of Moab, the D- 2. Ibonite | My father reigned over Moab thirty years, and I relgn- 3. ed after my father | THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET 295 The reader will note that the writing in this inscription is true alphabetic writing in the final stage; a development In the art of writing hitherto unknown in the East, where we have found only ideographic and syllabic writing, with the undeveloped alphabetic writing of the Persians.... Here on the shores of the Mediterranean in the 9th century B. c, we suddenly find, with no evident progenitor, a per- fected alphabet, in form, order and letter names nearly identical with our alphabet of to-day.^ Another inscription in the early Tyrian style of Phoenician writing, the oldest Phoenician inscription as yet discovered, is one engraved on some small fragments of a bronze bowl found on the Island of Cyprus (Fig.
96). The bowl was given by a "citizen of Carthage" (Newtown), In Phoenicia — not the later Tyrian colony in Africa — and doubtless was deposited In the Temple ,i,^)^±'j'l^-^:C'.
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