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...Babylonian Books. General view of their contents. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...third illustrated public lecture on Babylonian Books, Professor Lyon spoke of the script and the language...
...cuneiform script was employed by several nations in western Asia, including the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Persians. It was at first a picture writing, like the Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest...
...distinguished from the other great groups of languages. The triliteralism of stems, simplicity of verb forms, peculiar mode of expressing the genitive relation, close union of the personal pronouns with noun or verb, absence of a neuter gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially to the Hebrew. A Hebrew scholar on first looking at a translated Babylonian writing recognizes many familiar words. If Sennacherib's letters to Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language but in the Hebrew written character the receiver could have understood...
Professor Lyon will give his third Babylonian lecture today at 4 p. m. in the Jefferson Laboratory...