Etruscan alphabets
Date
1705
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Table showing the symbols of four Etruscan alphabets used to read an inscription on a statue of Tages, a founding prophet of Estruscan religion.
Illustrations to ‘Epistola Viri Reverendi D. Georgii Hickes, S. T. P. ad D. Hans Sloane, M.D. & S. R. Secr. De varia lectione inscriptionis, quæ in statua TAGIS exaratur, per quatuor Alpbabeta Hetrusca’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 302 (August 1705).
George Hickes (1642–1715), Bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Illustrations to ‘Epistola Viri Reverendi D. Georgii Hickes, S. T. P. ad D. Hans Sloane, M.D. & S. R. Secr. De varia lectione inscriptionis, quæ in statua TAGIS exaratur, per quatuor Alpbabeta Hetrusca’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 24, issue 302 (August 1705).
George Hickes (1642–1715), Bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society, and; Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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