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DatasetsProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetPetrie, Researches in Sinai (1906): public-domain scan with the first photographs of the script
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Petrie, Researches in Sinai (1906): public-domain scan with the first photographs of the script

Internet Archive scan of the University of Toronto copy of Petrie's 1906 report, with the OCR text and page images (IIIF), including figs 138-141 (the statuette, its inscription, and the sphinx) and pp. 129-132 on the "new alphabet". Public domain.

Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetVersion 1.0Licence Public domainUpdated 31 Oct 2026

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