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  2. Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon 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 society and history of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.

  3. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum - Wikipedia

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    The Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum ("Corpus of Semitic Inscriptions", abbreviated CIS) is a collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages produced since the end of 2nd millennium BC until the rise of Islam. It was published in Latin. In a note recovered after his death, Ernest Renan stated that: "Of all I have done, it is the Corpus ...

  4. Safaitic - Wikipedia

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    Safaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian. The Safaitic script is a member of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) sub ...

  5. Nabataean script - Wikipedia

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    Nabataean script. Nabataean Arabic inscription from Umm al-Jimal in northern Jordan. The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [2][3] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Category:Semitic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Semitic inscriptions". The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions.

  8. Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, [Amharic]], Geez, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [ a ] the Horn of Africa, [ b ][ c ] Malta, [ d ] and in large ...

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

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    His article "The Serabit Inscriptions: II. The Decipherment and Significance of the Inscriptions" provides an early detailed study of the inscriptions and some dozen black and white photographs, hand-drawings and analysis of the previously published inscriptions, #346, 349, 350–354, and three new inscriptions, #355–368.