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 Recent Discoveries in Northern Syria. 9 the Louvre of peculiar make, wherein ideographs and figures recall those at Hamath. Our space forbids giving more than a few specimens of these inscriptions, but those who should wish to study the whole series will find them in the Transactions of the Biblical and Archceo- logical Society, where they have been admirably reproduced, with notes by the secretary, Mr. Rylands. The woodcuts published in Fig. 254.— Hittite Hieroglyph. Actual size. St. Elme Gautier. Dr. Wright's work were copied from these, thus completing and supplementing the letterpress. A primary fact to be deduced in regard to these ideographs, signs, and figures, is that they were of native invention, different from Egyptian hieratic writing, and in many instances with a physiognomy of their own. As far back as Rosellini,^ and, after him, all the Egyptologists who visited the They were drawn by Mr. Rylands for the Biblical and Archaeological Society, and reproduced by Mr. Wright, Plates XVI., XVII. tom. i., Archcuologische Zeitung, pp. 33, and following. Consult also Maspero, Histoire Anciemie des Peuples a! Orient ^ 4' edit. p. 247.
 * Rosellini's view is quoted by Kiepcrt in his paper ujjon the Nymphi monument,