Note 896 — Chapter XXX · NO ROD, ALTHOUGH CLOSE INTERCOURSE WITH EGYPT

Thus the general conception of pictographic writing might perhaps be borrowed from the Euphrates valley, but not a single sign taken from the Babylonian script can be found (W. Max Müller, Encly. Bibl., p. 1233). Dr. Alan Gardiner, on the origin of the Semitic and Greek alphabets, concludes that the evidence does point to the alphabet being Semitic in origin and based upon acrophonic picture signs (Journal of Egyptian Archæology, vol. III., p. 1).