Show till C TRACE ORIGIN OF ALPHABET according to prof flinders petrie it existed years year B C attacks attack an old theory in a elect lect lecture ure at eba institute prof flinders gindera petrie has attacked the tha long accepted theory that the origin of the alphabet la ili to bo be found la in Phoe phoenicia nicla whence it came from egyptian hieroglyphics says sa a new york sun still london dispatch according to prot pi of petrie the te ri barches of tile the last twenty years yeara havu have shown that signs were earlier than pictures arid and that it was tho the slin sign that survived to become tho the alpha allba and beta of one civilization and the A H D C of another just as aa the philologist had discovered ono one entire of 0 languages so tie the lias has discovered in the diversity ot of alphabets oil an original prototype proto typo of 0 nil all in prof pearles Pet rles words oida ff the pho phoenicians Phoenicia ns are people ot of yesterday compared with those who wrote tho the signs that are tho ilia origin 1 3 4 nil all alphareta alph abeta I 1 it was ft as to pottery potters said tile the PlO feO i car that L egyptologists and others othora 1 were indebted for thosa these signs and their development was vaa worked out on oa these lines Flat noso made a pot and put a mark on it to show that it i was his in time because it was ills his mark the sign stood for Plat noBe himself and then the feign be became caline nt fit inched to a sound irrespective of 0 the thin thing g it r it gradually tho the wearing down went vent on until the sign stood blood not for or a sound but a syllable and then tor for a letter the signs of course were not an alphabet that did not mat arrive until perhaps 1000 11 C signs were vvera found in ili early prehistoric egypt probably ll 11 0 proofs of this common origin were plentiful for the by tar fair north and south and appeared similarly in runic iberian and kartan and yet were unknown in |