OF THE ARROW-HEADED CHARACTER. 517 
use of which they owed their origin, yet had no 
natural reference to the materials tn conjunction 
with which we now find them; for here in the 
characters seen in Fig. 13, we have the triangular 
form of the style produced arrow-head, together 
with the depressed angle, which is a feature due 
to and inherent in the Babylonian arrow-head, as 
being the result of the impression of the angle of 
the style in the soft clay. See Figs. 6,7, 8. I 
could crowd my. paper with further examples 
derived from ancient Greek inscriptions, all of 
which would, in the most perfect manner, sub- 
stantiate what I have set forth in Fig. 13, and 
the remarks thereon. I trust, however, that the 
examples brought forward will be sufficient to 
make good my alleged discovery of the existence 
of ocular proof of the Babylonian origin of the 
form of the Greek capital letters. I lay a stress 
on the word capital in order to draw a line of dis- 
tinction between them and the smaller characters, 
which being the result of the use of a pointed 
style on wax, or a pen with ink, bears, on the 
exact same principle as that of the arrow-head, a 
form which is due to and directly referable to the 
instrument or means employed for their produc- 
tion. I would beg this to be carefully kept in 
mind, as when so considered the forms of such small 
