BUTIN TO SPEAK ON LAKE'S MOUNT SINAI DISCOVERIES

This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum, Professor Raymond Francois Butin, foremost American authority on Egyptology and Semitic Languages, will lecture on the inscriptions found last summer by Professors Kirsopp Lake and R. P. Blake on their expedition to Serabit el Khadem on Mount Sinai.

These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet.

In his lecture, which will be illustrated by slides of the tablets and of the expedition, Professor Butin will give the first authoritative statement as to the actual meaning of the inscriptions.