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ALPHABET
Plate.

Inscribed Pebbles from Mas d’Azil.


Prehistoric Linear Script from Crete.

Gold Fibula from Praeneste, with Early Latin Inscription.
Right to left.
Vadstena Pendant, with Runic Alphabet;
about a.d. 600.

Cyprian Inscription (4th century b.c.) from Curium (British Museum Excavations, p. 64). Below are (1) the transliteration of the symbols; (2) the Greek words, both like the Cyprian reading from right to left.

Oldest Attic Inscription. From a Dipylon Vase probably of 8th century b.c. Right to left.

Inscription on Buddha Vase, perhaps 4th century b.c.

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