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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> See the linked article with plenty of interesting stuff. There's
> apparently a fairly good chance that "sphinx" is Ancient Egyptian
> after all, though it would be an overstatement to talk about a
> massive influx of Egyptian loans into Greek. It was just a trickle.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/AEloans.html
>
> Piotr
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An interesting web site indeed. As a geologist I have to point out
the compiler missed "syenite", an igneous rock name in wide use.
I just now made my first contribution to Wikipedia, in the article
"Aswan", substituting "granitic rock" where it had read "marble" in
the sentence: "The quarries of Syene were celebrated for their stone,
and especially for the granitic rock called Syenite".
Dan