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  2. Proto-Sinaitic script - Wikipedia

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    Flinders Petrie, 1906, Researches in Sinai O my god, 「rescue」 [me] 「from」 the interior of the mine. ’l「ḫlṣ」[n]「b」t「k」nqb Text 350 Steliform rock panel column ii, left column gives a picture of the situation of the miners. According to William Albright, in his book "The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions And Their Decipherment", the first inscriptions in the category now ...

  3. Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It developed directly from the Proto-Sinaitic script [4] [3] used during the Late Bronze Age, which was derived in turn from Egyptian hieroglyphs. [5] [6] The Phoenician alphabet was used to write Canaanite languages spoken during the Early Iron Age, sub-categorized by historians as Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite, as well as ...

  4. Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. Serabit sphinx (#345) The Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are about 30 early alphabetic inscriptions in proto-Sinaitic script found at or in the vicinity of Serabit el-Khadim on the Sinai Peninsula.

  5. Proto-Canaanite alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Canaanite is the name given to the. (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later. [1] (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BC, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic. [2] No extant "Phoenician" inscription is older than 1000 ...

  6. Serabit el-Khadim - Wikipedia

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    Thirty incised graffiti in a "Proto-Sinaitic script" shed light on the history of the alphabet. [2] The mines were worked by prisoners of war from southwest Asia who presumably spoke a Northwest Semitic language, such as the Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew. The incisions date from the beginning of the 16th century BC. [3]

  7. Acrophony - Wikipedia

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    The paradigm for acrophonic alphabets is the Proto-Sinaitic script and the succeeding Phoenician alphabet, in which the letter A, representing the sound , is thought to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph representing an ox, and is called 'ox', ʾalp, which starts with the glottal stop sound the letter represents.

  8. Wadi el-Hol inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions are two rock inscriptions which appear to show some of the oldest examples of phonetic alphabetic writing discovered to date. [1][2] Wadi el-Hol (where Wadi means valley in Arabic) is a valley on the Farshut Road, north-west of Luxor on the Qena Bend, situated on the west bank of the river Nile in Egypt. [3]

  9. Ugaritic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    History of the alphabet. The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE [1] or 1300 BCE [2] for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language. It was discovered in Ugarit, modern Ras Al Shamra, Syria, in 1928. It has 30 letters.