WRITING OF MOSES
ANCIENT TABLET DECIPHERED. GRATITUDE TO PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER. Brass Association—By Telegraph—CopyrigK BERLIN, October 20. Professor Grimme, an Egyptologist, claims that .he has deciphered part of one of the tablets discovered by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1905 on Mount Sinai. He is convinced that this stone tablet was sot up by Moses himself as a record of his gratitude to Pharaoh’s daughter for his rescue from the Nile. Following certain clues, Professor Grimme and other professors gradually worked out an entire alphabet of 22 letters, from which it appears that the language of the inscription is almost identical with Biblical Hebrew. Professor Grimme is emphatic that this is genuinely the first writing in sentences, dating back 1509 years before Christ.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19617, 22 October 1925, Page 9
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