The Aryan origin of the alphabet : disclosing the Sumero-Phœnician parentage of our letters ancient & modern

4 ARYAN ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET

of a statue from Byblos, which Professor Dussaud believes may be dated on paleographic grounds to “about the thirteenth century B.c.”* And this is supposed to confirm the ‘‘ Semitic’ theory of the origin of alphabetic writing. The recent discovery of a Phceniciod script on tablets, bricks, etc., unearthed at a neolithic site at Glozel, twelve miles from Vichy in the Loire Valley * does not as yet help us much as the inscriptions are still unread; and while Professor Elliot Smith dates the neolithic remains there to about 2000 B.c., several savants believe the inscribed tablets are of a very much later date, and possibly Early Roman. On the other hand, I have found on a “ prehistoric ” monument in Ireland inscriptions by Brito-Phcenician kings from Brutus downwards in retrograde Phoenician alphabetic writing quite as archaic as on the Byblos statue and associated with contemporary Cadmean oy non-retrograde Phenician script (see Plates, column 17), which can be positively dated to before 1075 B.C., as described in detail in my forthcoming work on “‘ Menes, the First of the Pharaohs,’ which also proves conclusively that Menes was an Aryan Pheenician, and identical with Manis-tusu, Emperor of Mesopotamia, and that his father Sargon was a ‘“‘ Pre-dynastic ’ king of Egypt. 1 Revue, Syria, 1925, ror f.

2 A. Morlet and Emile Fradin, Nouvelle Station Neolithique. Three pamphlets 1926, summarized in Illustrated London News, October 23, 1926.