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The earliest Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are mostly dated to between the mid-19th (early date) and the mid-16th (late date) century BC. The principal debate is between an early date, around 1850 BC, and a late date, around 1550 BC. The choice of one or the other date decides whether it is proto-Sinaitic or proto-Canaanite, and by extension ...
RevisitingtheEncodingofProtoSinaiticinUnicode AnshumanPandey 1. ProtoSinaiticisaproper‘script’.Itwasinvented“byCanaanites”andthe“numberoflettersrepre
5. All West Semitic alphabets (emerging after Proto-Canaanite) utilize the abstracted forms but Old Negev retains in use a very large number of archaic forms (i.e. Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanite forms). 6. Old Negev also retains an elaborate use of ligatures to create symbols that often complement or enhance the inscriptions.
Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaitic are two different things (a reconstruction on the one hand, and an undeciphered script on the other). I created a Middle Bronze Age alphabets article for Proto-Sinaitic/Wadi el-Hol, and removed them from this article. -- kwami 12:04, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC) I'm going to remove the letters.
Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions (byu.edu) Proto-Sinaitic - 18th-14th cent. B.C., Mnamon Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean; Escritura Proto-sinaítica (in Spanish), Promotora Española de Lingüística (Proel). Wadi el-Hol. USC West Semitic Research Project site on Wadi el-Hol, with photos; Yale news article on Wadi el-Hol from 2000 Dec
History Sinaitic (Nabataean) inscriptions published in 1774 by Carsten Niebuhr. The alphabet is descended from the Aramaic alphabet.In turn, a cursive form of Nabataean developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century, which is why Nabataean's letterforms are intermediate between the more northerly Semitic scripts (such as the Aramaic-derived Hebrew) and those of Arabic.
