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By Maurice Pope
The will to unravel mysteries is as previous as humanity and the spell of an unknown writing has regularly been rather effective. this can be a dialogue of the contributions to the technology of decipherment made via theorists resembling Leibnitz and via remarkable practitioners of it from Champollion to Ventris. Maurice Pope examines the highbrow advancements that result in their amazing achievements, and describes the method of decipherment, supplying quotations from their unique courses and plenty of examples in their drawings, tables and diagrams. one of the scripts the writer analyses are the Palmyra script, Sassanid Persian, Egyptian hieroglyphic, Persian cuniform, Akkadian cuneiform, the Cypriot syllabary, Hittitte hieroglyphic, the Ugaritic alphabet and Mycenaean Linear B.
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Hemphta fupramundanum.... Numen, Sol Archetypus • Ofiris • C(Xlorum orbitas . leJles . Solem . Horus . Lunam . nta . Amore connetHr & I n (uo eife conferuat . His . L �mones fublunares per p::>tentem . Amoris catenam alliciunturque velati trahuntur • 33 The Egyptian Hieroglyphs 1 9 Detail of the 'tabula Benlbina' from Vieo's copperplate as reproduced by Pignorio 34 explanations of little utility'). Strictly speaking, therefore, it falls outside the scope of this book except as an instance of the small i mportance attached at the time to the difference between the hieroglyphic script proper and the representations of Egyptian art.
Warburton, however, was not only ingenious but also important. To ask whether or not the decipherment of the hieroglyphs would ha ve taken place without him is very much like asking whether or not the discoveries of modern science and technology would have taken place without the theoretical shel ter for them erected by The Eighteenth Century Francis Bacon. That is to sa y, it is a question with two sides and no visible answer. But what is evident is that Warburton created the framework for Egyptological speculation, particularly in France, in the latter half of the eighteenth century and beyond.
These are, respectively, the new facts and the new theory of the section heading. The story begins just before the century opened. In 1 692 a long band of material from a mummy burial was unwrapped in the presence of M. de M aillet, the French Consul in Cairo . l It carried figures drawn in the ancient Egyptian style which were accom panied by an ink-written text in a hitherto unknown sort of writing. It was cut up, presumably at the time of unwrapping, into seven or eight pieces, and sent to France.