Proto-Sinaitic script
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proto-sinaitic-script-186-9509162
title:
Proto-Sinaitic script
text:
The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscriptions from Wadi el-Hol in Middle Egypt. Together with about 20 known Proto-Canaanite inscriptions, it is also known as Early Alphabetic, i.e. the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many mode
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Middle Bronze Age script
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script
date created:
2005-04-30T07:15:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:13:47Z
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