Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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263 (c) the cursive script (Fig. 128, col. 5), which gave rise to many local varieties in the Levant, Morocco, Spain, Italy, and other countries, of which the Polish-German form became the current Hebrew cursive script (Fig. 128, col. 7).
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Fig. 129-Square Hebrew inscriptions I, Sepulchral inscription from "Angel-Emir (Wadi es-Sir, to the south-east from es-Salt, Trunsjordan), formerly attributed to the second or third century E.C., now attributed to the late sixth or early fifth century D.C. 2, The "Gezer boundary," belonging to the first half of the first century BC. 3. Early Square Hebrew tomb inscription. Hebrew
incantation text on a bowl, from Babylonia, attributed to the eighth century A.D.
This division must be a very old one, for it already appears in fragments of the seventh and eighth centuries A.D.
