The Lycian Inscriptions After the Accurate Copies of the Late Augustus Schoenborn: With a Critical Commentary and an Essay on the Alphabet and Language of the Lycians (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But in the beginning of our task already we found, that it was impossible to decipher even the Alphabet without new and accurate copies, for besides such passages, as give offence to a sound criticism, the highly important bilingual inscription of Antiphellus 3 shows, that the copies of Fellows have no claims to accuracy, and it was only the copy of L. Ross, that gave the text of this monument in a reliable form. Nevertheless the 27 inscriptions collected by Fellows offered the most valuable materials, which have served till now as a basis for the decipherer, for also the 36 texts published by Daniel], Spratt and Forbes, the greater part of which were unknown till then, do not show that accuracy, which the decipherer and the philologist has a right to demand, as will be seen in our critical commentary.

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