Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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CONCLUSION
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Peru (Fig. 253. 5), and elsewhere. Some may be spurious, others are certainly genuine; even the former have a certain interest for the history of writing.
Remarkable are the inscriptions, engraved on slates, numbering over 500, found in different localities in Spain, particularly in the province of Salamanca (Fig. 253, 6-7). The script consists mainly of signs in the shape of Roman numerals I, II, III, IIII, V, X, and some have
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Fig. 253-Inscriptions written in unknown scripts 1-3, The so-called proto-Arabic inscriptions from "Ur of the Chaldees." 4. Other enigmatic inscription from Mesopotamia. 5, Spurious (2) inscription from Peru. 6-7, Enigmatic inscriptions from Spain
