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- geographicon - this word seems to be pretty much unique to this publication. It appears to mean a word formed to describe a geographical location.
- grapheme - a unit (such as a letter or digraph) of a writing system or a set of units of a writing system (such as letters and letter combinations) that represent a phoneme
- epigraphy - the study of inscriptions, especially deciphering them
- orthographic - correctly spelled
- ostracon/ostraca - a fragment (as of pottery) containing an inscription
- carburized - a metal combined or impregnated with carbon
- morphology - the study and description of word formation (such as inflection, derivation and compounding) in language
- razzia - forays, raids; plundering and destructive incursions
- bulla - an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing
- anthroponym - personal name
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