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Excerpt from Karanòg, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog Such was approximately the course of the decipherment down to the autumn of 1910. It is still in an early stage. Even in the alphabet the vowels are extremely obscure, and, among the consonants, the value attributed to the letter may be more or less wide of the mark while of the Meroitic vocabulary, apart from personal names, place-names, and words borrowed from Egyptian, almost nothing is known. But it is hoped that the material here provided has been so far verified, classified, and dealt with that any further spark of light will quickly spread its illumination. If new eyes, whether of trained decipherers or of scholars expert in North African philology, will exert themselves upon it, the secrets of Meroitic should soon be yielded up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.