Proto-Sinaitic inscriptionMiddle Bronze Age (Middle Kingdom) alphabetic script attested in a small c
Proto-Sinaitic inscriptionMiddle Bronze Age (Middle Kingdom) alphabetic script attested in a small corpus of inscriptions found at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, and the reconstructed common ancestor of the Paleo-Hebrew, Phoenician and South Arabian scripts (and, by extension, of most historical and modern alphabets).Thirty incised graffiti in a “Proto-Sinaitic script” shed light on the history of the alphabet, 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. Vast majority as yet undeciphered. -- source link
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