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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.
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Proto-Sinaitic is a Middle Bronze Age script. It is known only from a few inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula. Because there are so few Proto-Sinaitic signs, little is known with certainty about the nature of the script.
Learn about the first alphabetic writing system developed by Semitic speakers in Egypt and Sinai around 1900 BC. See sample inscriptions, links and fonts for Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite scripts.
The Paleo-Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets developed in the wake of the Bronze Age collapse, out of their immediate predecessor script Proto-Canaanite (Late Proto-Sinaitic) during the 13th to 12th centuries BCE, and earlier Proto-Sinaitic scripts.
Sinaitic inscriptions, archaeological remains that are among the earliest examples of alphabetic writing; they were inscribed on stones in the Sinai Peninsula, where they were first discovered in 1904–05 by the British archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie. Apparently influenced both by Egyptian.
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The inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadem are written in the earliest known alphabetic script, from which all other alphabets derive. That script is called Old Canaanite or proto-Canaanite (though in the form found at Serabit it is known as proto-Sinaitic script).
Mar 12, 2024 · The earlier Proto-Sinaitic texts, which are thought to have been written by Canaanite workers,* adapted Egyptian hieroglyphs to serve as written symbols for distinct alphabetic sounds. The letters in the Lachish inscription represent a more evolved form of the same early alphabetic script.
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