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    Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first...
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  • 8th century BC The Phoenician alphabet was deciphered in 1758 by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, but its relation to the Phoenicians remained unknown until the...
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    Revolution. Born in Aubagne, he was educated by his uncle the abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy for a diplomatic career. After serving as secretary of legation...
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  • southernmost Spain. In modern times, the language was first decoded by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in 1758, who noted that the name "Phoenician" was first given to...
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  • Look up Barthélemy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barthélemy, or Barthélémy is a French name, a cognate of Bartholomew. Notable people with this name...
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    specified the direction of writing from left to right. In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy found that an inscription in Persepolis resembled that found on...
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    middle of the 4th century BCE, written by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and published in 1788. Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's book was a fanciful but learned imaginary...
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    written phonetically; he also recalled that as early as 1761, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy had suggested that the characters enclosed in cartouches in hieroglyphic...
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  • Ólafsson of Grunnavík Cipher runes 1740s Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Palmyrene alphabet 1754 Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Phoenician alphabet 1758 Antoine-Isaac...
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    Saint Barthélemy (French: Saint-Barthélemy, [sɛ̃ baʁtelemi] ), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St Barts (English)...
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    alphabet was deciphered in 1754, literally overnight, by Abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy using these new, accurate copies of bilingual inscriptions. Palmyrene...
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  • Scottish archaeologist and architect (d. 1788) 1716: January 20 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1795) 1717: December 9 - Johann Joachim...
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  • Babelon (1854–1924) Churchill Babington Paul Balog Anselmo Banduri Jean-Jacques Barthélemy Garde du Cabinet du roi (1754–1795) Pierre Bastien (1912–2010)...
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    Phoenician and Semitic language studies, as they were used by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in his decipherment of the Phoenician language. Only one of the...
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    Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom Portofino, Italy Alushta, Ukraine Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, (1716–1795), writer and numismatist, was born in Cassis. Henri...
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  • development of the Northwest Semitic scripts. Kopp criticised Jean-Jacques Barthélemy and other scholars who had characterized all the then-known inscriptions...
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    reviewed by Anne Claude de Caylus, Bernard de Montfaucon and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. Barthelemy's review ended an early dispute about the language of the...
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    (1923-1933) The sole surviving Pococke Kition inscription, used by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in his decipherment of the Phoenician language The Abingdon Sword...
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    understanding of the Phoenician language. In 1758, the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélémy relied on their inscription, which used 17 of the 22 letters of...
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    Phoenician alphabet. Cippus Perusinus One of two Cippi of Melqart which Jean-Jacques Barthélemy used to decipher the Phoenician language. Etruscan "pietra fetida"...
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    to be seen as having achieved what he intended. The librarian Jean-Jacques Barthélemy procured a pension for him and appointed him interpreter of oriental...
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  • Theobald – The Odyssey of Homer See also 1716 in poetry January 20 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795) March 6 – Pehr Kalm...
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  • painter of The Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852) 1795: April 30 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy French writer and numismatist (b. 1716) "Frampton". Historic England...
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    by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. Their work noted that non-hieroglyphic Egyptian scripts seemed to contain signs derived from hieroglyphs. Barthélemy also...
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    specified the direction of writing from left to right. In 1762, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy found that an inscription in Persepolis resembled that found on...
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  • Strawberry Hill Press in England. unknown dates – The French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélemy deciphers the Phoenician language using inscriptions on the Cippi...
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    Claude Barthélemy (born August 22, 1956) is a French jazz guitarist. Barthélemy started playing guitar when he was fourteen years old. He began playing...
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    antiquary and naturalist erudite in various domains, who succeeded Jean-Jacques Barthélemy as curator of the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the former...
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    Hicks, Robert Drew (Two volume ed.). Loeb Classical Library. Jean Jacques Barthelemy's The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece (French) Rusyayeva...
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  • Greco-Roman sources. Scholarly interest increased in 1758, when Jean-Jacques Barthélémy deciphered the Phoenician alphabet, and the number of known Phoenician...
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