Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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THE ALPHABET
There are also a few Pictish inscriptions in a half-uncial or "Irish" type of the Roman character.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Rhys, The Inscriptions and Language of the Northern Picts, "PROC. OF THE Soc. OF ANTIQ. OF SCOTLAND," 1891-2; Celtic Britain, 4th ed., London, 1908.
J. Romilly Allen, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1903
R. A. S. Macalister, The Inscriptions and Language of the Picts, "Essays and Studies presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill," Dublin, 1940 (with extensive bibliography).
E. MacNeill, The Language of the Picts, "YORKSHIRE CELTIC STUDIES," (19381939), 1940, pp. 3-45.
Teutonic Oghams (2)
The above limestone tablets, discovered at Brier (Magdeburg) on the River Elbe in Saxony, are written in a script, which has some similarity with the oghams, but nothing can be said about their mutual connection.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. A. S. Macalister, Studies in Irish Epigraphy, I1, London, 1902.
