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Christian martyrological text.A version of this article is available in printVolume VI, Fascicle 5, pp. 512 CYRIACUS AND JULITTA, ACTS OF, Christian martyrological text. The Greek original is lost, but versions survive in several languages, including Latin, Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic. Part of a Sogdian version, translated from the Syriac, is extant in a fragment with the signature T ii B 60 [No. 13] (unpublished; preserved in the Turfan collection of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin). The legend, which has…

Christian martyrological text, of which versions survive in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Armenian.A version of this article is available in printVolume IX, Fascicle 1, pp. 76 EUSTATHIUS, ACTS OF, Christian martyrological text, of which versions survive in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Armenian. Several fragments of the manuscript C2 (preserved in Berlin, in the Turfan collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Orientabteilung, and in the Museum für Ind…

the representation of language by means of “ideograms,” that is, symbols representing “ideas,” rather than (or usually side by side with) symbols which represent sounds. i. Terminology and conventions. ii. Ideographic writing in the Ancient Near East.A version of this article is available in printVolume XII, Fascicle 6, pp. 617-618 IDEOGRAPHIC WRITING, the representation of language by means of “ideograms,” i.e. symbols representing “ideas,” rather than (or usually side by side with) symbols which represent sounds.i. Terminology and ConventionsHuman language can be reduce…