Bunsen
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Whitman's hand | blue double overline and underline |
| Highlighting | yellow background with top and bottom border |
| Paste-on | gray box with black borders |
| Laid in | white box with black borders |
| Erasure | white text with dark gray background |
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
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resume—(from Bunsen)
—Thus there in Assyria, (as
in Egypt,) they had a written
language, numerals, cal calcul
weights, tables, calculations,
the financial mediums, and
dispatches—they had an
appropriate religion, poetry,
history, amusements,
Bunsen
p 231
"The inscriptions on the rocks
on the road, on the west
side of the Seinaitic peninsula, to
Mount Seinai, had already occupied
the attention of CosmosCosmas Indicopleustes,
in the earlier part of the sixth
century.—(Niebuhr aAfter many suggestions
from others, different ages,
Niebuhr divined their contents,
and scorned the idea of anything
but greetings and memorials
of travelers in different ages.)
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Bunsen
The native name of Egypt is Khami, (black,) The Semitic and Iranian families are primitively connected with each other. Ancient Chaldee (Babylon and Assyria i.e. Nineveh —cuneiform inscriptions Aramæan (from Aram) a name which applies equally to Mesopotamia & Syria '"Chaldean Christians" in Kurdistan called Nestorians.'In Egypt and in Assyria, and
doubtless in other ancient languages lan nations,
there were separate castes in
language, as in men—there was
one ^written language for religion, one ^perhaps for
the nobility, and without doubt one for the common
mass of people.
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resume—(from Bunsen)
—Thus there in Assyria, (as
in Egypt,) they had a written
language, numerals, 