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At some time in the year 1916 there was published by the firm E. J. Brill, in Leiden, Vol. VI, Part 1, of the Publications of the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis.' The volume contains fifteen of the thirty-four Lydian inscriptions found in the course of the excavation, and also a Lydian-Aramaic bilingual. It is this last-named inscription which made the volume possible, since up to this time only a small part of the Lydian alphabet had been deciphered, and nothing at all was known about the language. Thanks to the presence here of half a dozen proper names occurring in both the Lydian and the Aramaic, a considerable advance is evidently possible. Littmann attacks the waiting problems with his usual acumen and thoroughness, and as a result has determined the majority of the Lydian characters, besides making many very interesting suggestions as to the meaning of recurring words and the signification of certain structural elements. It must be said, however, that beyond the proper names, one or two somewhat elusive particles, and the probable meaning of a few words and formulae (for most of the fifteen inscriptions here brought together are mortuary, and therefore bear a
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- Author
- Torrey, Charles C.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press (ISSN 1062-0516)
- Published
- 1918
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)