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more than two lines rising upwards, [22] or with transverse strokes through the top-line, or with pondants hanging down from it, all of which peculiarities would have been awkward for the insertion of the vowels i, e and o; (3) by a desire to differentiate the signs which, altered according to these principles, would have become identical.
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No. 1, 4, col. III, = Alepk, col. I, a (Saqqarah), with a cursive change of the head to a curve; the position and the size of the letter make a connection with the forma in col. I, 6, or col. II, improbable. - No. 2, ba, col. III, = Beth, col. I, a, b (Teima, Saqqarah), with a cursive eurve for the angle at the right; the cursive forms of the Beth of the papyri, [29] col. II, 6, 4, are further developed than the Kharoethi signs. - No. 3, ga, col. III, = Gimel, derived from ool. I. or & similar form (compare col. II, and EUTING, TSA. 1, a), with a cursive loop on the right and a curve on the left; similar loops are common in later ligatures, see pl. I, 33, 3), 86, XII; 34, XIII; and they oocar even in ja, pl. I, 12, XII. - No. 4, da, col. III, = Daleth, derived from a form like that in col. II, b, which, according to col. I, 4, occurs already about
