Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology Volume 19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...form, but because it occurs on the gem in pi. Ill, fig. (2. Th tables of the Due de LuynesJ show that this is an earlier form than that of the Siloam Mem. Col. 9 gives the alphabet found upon the Siloam Inscription. The alphabets usually figured are mostly inaccurate, having been taken from printed copies, and not from casts of the actual inscrip Proc. Soc. BiH. Arch., Vol. IV, p. 54. t Corpus Inscriptionum Hcbraicarum, von D. Chwolson. (St. Petersburg. 1882.) In the Babylonian andOriental Record (Vol. I, p. 194) Professor Sayce figures a seal containing a genuine Old Hebrew Samekk. The gem seems to be a Phoenician imitation of late Persian work; and would therefore belong to the fourth century B.C., which is too early for our column. The Samekk has the shape shown in our column 2. There is a very similar gem in the British Museum, with the legend " Hodu the Scribe." J Essays on Indian Antiquities, by James Prinsep (London, 1858), Vol. II, p. 166. Essay by the Due de Luynes on "L'Alphabet Phenicien." tion. The real forms of the letters can be seen in Professor Wright's photograph in the Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch., Vol. IV, pp. 68, 69. The Siloam Aleph has the F shape, as first used upon the coins of Antigonus, 40 B.c.; instead of the older bull-head form which was in use as late as the time of Hyrcanus. Beth has the same shape as upon the seal of Haggai; this is the ordinary Phoenician form. Gimel is like that of Haggai; the top bar not so sloping as upon the Hasmonean coins, and not straight as upon the shekels. Daleth is normal. He has the normal Phoenician form; and is quite unlike the oldest dated Jewish He upon the coins of Hyrcanus. Vau deserves special mention. This form occurs upon the lion-weights of Sargon (705...