Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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INDEX
585 Dogra script, 373 f.
171, 186, 189 ff., 195 ff., 210 ff., 221, Dolichocephalie, 18, 82
223, 230, 232, 236, 249, 254 f., 257, Domestication of animals, XI, 120, 254 267, 270, 277, 279, 283, 287, 449, Dong-yen-chau inscription, 403, 405 462, 466 ff., 470, 490 Dorians 449, 455
Egyptian theory on the origin of the Dorie-Corinthian, 493
alphabet, 195 ft., 214 ff. Dotted runes, 522
Einang stone-inscription, 309 Dotting", 500; see also Diacritical Ekoi, 148 f. marks
Ekwi; se Twi Doubtful material, 14
El-Amarnah; see Tell el-'Amarna Dragons (Script of the), 108
Elamite scripts, +1.53 ff., 85 Dravidi (Script), 338, 341, 385
Elath, 243 Dravidian, 333 f., 342, 378 f., 387. Elbasan script, 488 f. 393. 396, 399, 442
Elbe (River), 518, 532 Druids. 525529
Elephant cave inscription, 341 Duenos ("Dufnos"?) inscription, 534 f. Elephantine Papyri, 255, 258 Dumfries, 509
Eliba'al inscription, 212 f. Dura- Europos, 279 f..
Elu script, 390 Dutch, 37, 396, 420, 431, 5581 vee also Embryo-writing, 21 ff. Holland
Empty Quarter See South Arabia Dvaravati (Kingdom), 418
Enchoriul script; see Demotic Dza-K'iong; see Nam
Engle; sex Anglo-Saxon English, XII, 27. 37. 125, 176, 183,
218, 266, 279, 283. 306, 336, 338, EARLY Germanic, -Nepali; see Ger. 420, 455, 492, 508, 518, 536, 541, manic, Nepali
544.546 1. 549 f., 552, 554, Early Hebrew alphabet, 212 ff., 235 ff., 555 ff., 565; see also Anglian runes, 245, 247, 201
Anglo-Saxon scripts, Britain, Old Early Hungarian script, 315
English Early Manipuri script, 365, 367
English Court hands, 551 Early Maurya script, 330, 339 ff. Engomi, 167 Early Teutonic runes; see Common Enigmatic scripts; see Unknown scripts Teutonic and Teutonic
Enion Creek, 149 Early Western Deccan: see Andhra Enna (Province), 504 East, 221, 277, 280, 285, 572
En-Nemarah, 271 Easter Island, 40, 87. 136 ff., 420
Ephesus, 285, 288, 456 Eastern) Africa, Asia, -Church, Epicarmos, 451
-Cree, etc.; see Africa, Asia, Epigraphy, 18, 103, 138, 163, 199, 203, Church, Cree, etc.
212, 225 1., 236, 238, 332, 337, 343, Eastern Kirghiz: see Kazakh Turkish
388, 401, 403, 407 f., 410, 424, 461 Eastern Province (Ceylon), 388
Epizephyrian Locri, 472 East European Jewry, 266
Erin coin, 332 f., 338, 341 East Indies, 420 ff.
Eratosthenes, 451 East Italic; see Piceni
Erech; see Uruk East Syrians; see Nestorians and Syria Eremboi; see Aram Ebe: see Uguakıma
Erh ya, 108 Ecbatana, see Hannadan
Erlangga, Er-langga (King), 434 Ecclesiastical Slavonic, 475
Eskimo, 121, 157, 183 Edessene Syriac, 280 ff., 287
Esperanto, 559 Edomite script, 243 f.
Es-Safa: see Safa Education, 37
Es-Salt, 261 Efik, 148, 363
Este inscriptions; see Venetic Egbo, 150
Estrangela script, 280-289, 393 Eggjum, 309
Eteo-Cretan; set Cretan Egilimar, 446
Ethiopie, 186, 191, 223, 226, 229, Egill, son of Skallagrim, 307
230 ff., 287, 291, 299 f., 484, 487 Egyptian, XI, 17, 19, 24 f., 29, 33, 35, 37. Etruscan, XII, 37, 451 f., 456, 461, 465,
40, 53, 58 ff., 72 f., 77, 88, 91, 95, 471, 489, 490 ff., 5o6 f., 517, 534 ff., 102 f., 114, 121, 158, 160 f., 164 f., 538; see also North Etruscan