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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Category. : Proto-Sinaitic script. Articles relating to the Proto-Sinaitic script (c. 19th century BCE) and to writing systems derived from it.
Sinaitic script. Sinaitic script could refer to: Nabataean script, the script previously known as Sinaitic as most examples were found in the Sinai. Proto-Sinaitic script, the predecessor script. Category: Disambiguation pages.
A specimen of Proto-Sinaitic script containing a phrase which may mean 'to Baalat'. The line running from the upper left to lower right reads mt l b c lt. In the winter of 1905, Petrie and his wife Hilda were conducting a series of archaeological excavations in the Sinai Peninsula.
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.