LIST OF FIGURES
FIG PAGE
1 The Rosetta Stone facing 10
2 Inscription from Mine Shaft m the Sinai Peninsula 18
3 Old Persian Cuneiform Syllabary 22
4 Cuneiform Tablet Recording Babylonian Legend of the
Deluge facing 30
5 Bilingual Seal of King Arnuwandas II, a Hittite King 36
6 British Traffic Signs 49
7 Pictographic Writing of Aztec Civilization m Mexico 52
8 Ideograms of the Eighteen Twenty-Day Months of the
Calendar of the Ancient Maya Civilization of Central
America 54
9 Ancient Picture Writing of the Hittites from an Inscription
at Kama in Syria 56
10 Discus of Phacstos chowmg as yet Undeciphered Picto-
graphic Writing of the Ancient Cretan Civilization 59
11 Consonant Symbols of some Contemporary Alphabets 60
12 Vowel Symbols of Some Contemporary Alphabets 62
13 The Ancient Cypnotic Syllabary 64
14 Stone Inscription from Paphos (Eighth Century B c) facing 64
15 Some Signs from Early Alphabets 70
16 Early and Later Form of Some Greek and Latin Letters 72
17 Key to Rumc and Ogam Scripts 75
x8 Bilingual Inscription m Latin (Roman Letters) and Celtic
(Ogam Signs) from a Church at Trallong in Ireland 76
19 Semaphore,, Morse and Braille Codes 78
20 Facsimile Note in Pitman's Shorthand by Bernard Shaw 86
21 The Directives of Place 142
22 The Directives of Motion 144
23 The Instrumental Directives 145
24 The Directives of Time 146
25 Associative Directives *47
26 Com of Maccabcan Times with Early Hebrew Characters 196
27 Three Verses from the Old Testament in the Oldest Dateable
MS of the Hebrew Bible facing 204
28 Page from the "Codex Argenteus" now in Uppsala facing 228