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The following list contains a selection from the Latin abbreviations that occur in the writings and inscriptions of the ... (for the sake of example) E.H.L.N.R ...
The text is largely an account of a military campaign against the ancient Libyans, but the last three of the 28 lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, including the first documented instance of the name Israel in the historical record, and the only documented record in Ancient Egypt.
The Greek-language inscriptions and epigraphy are a major source for understanding of the society, language and history of ancient Greece and other Greek-speaking or Greek-controlled areas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Greek inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca , ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts.
It used symbols for whole words or word roots and grammatical modifier marks, and it could be used to write either whole passages in shorthand or only certain words. In medieval times, the symbols to represent words were widely used; and the initial symbols, as few as 140 according to some sources, were increased to 14,000 by the Carolingians ...
All the inscriptions published between 1916 and 1936 were given identification numbers following those of Gardiner's initial 1916 publication. Gardiner's numbers 1–344 were objects from Sinai with unrelated Egyptian inscriptions, so the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions numbering began at 345.
The main article for this category is Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions. Language portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 ...
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
As of 1989, the corpus of Cretan hieroglyphic inscriptions included two parts: Seals and sealings, 150 documents with 307 sign-groups, using 832 signs in all. Other documents on clay, 120 documents with 274 sign-groups, using 723 signs. [3] More documents, such as those from the Petras deposit, have been published since then.