III. — On the Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian 



Dialect. 



By CHARLES E. BENNETT. 



Dr. Isaac H. Hall in the Proceedings of tJic American 

 Oriental Society iox OoX-oh^x, 1877, stated the wants existing 

 at that stage of Cyprian study as i) a complete collection of 

 inscriptions, 2) a correct syllabary, 3) a compilation of the 

 best- interpretations ; after which, grammar and vocabulary. 

 The first and second of these wants have been admirably 

 met by Deecke's publication of the existing inscriptions with 

 an appended syllabary in Collitz's Sammlnng der GriechiscJien 

 Dialekt-InscJu'iften. Bd. I., Heft i, 1883. The excellent foun- 

 dation laid by this brilliant and thorough work has encouraged 

 the present attempt at a systematic treatment of the grammar 

 of the dialect. 



The inscriptions made use of, in addition to those pub- 

 lished in Collitz's Sammhmg (212 in number), have been the 

 following: — 



1. The two inscriptions with fragments of two others pub- 

 lished by Sayce in the Berliner PhilologiscJie WochenscJirift, 

 1884, No. 21. 



2. Three inscriptions published by Hans Voigt in the 

 Stndia Nicolaitana, 1884. 



3. Thirty inscriptions published by Deecke in the Badiner 

 PhilologiscJie WochenscJirift, 1886, Nos. 41, 51, 52. 



4. The two bilingual inscriptions of Tamassus, published 

 by Deecke in thQ Berliner PJiilologiscJie WocJienscJtrift, 1886, 

 No. 42 ; 1887, No. 12. 



5. Meister's new reading (suggested by Deecke) of inscrip- 

 tion 41 in Collitz's Sammlnng, in the Berliner PJiilologiscJie 



WocJienschrift, 1887, No. 52. 



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