# Short Northwest Semitic votive texts and names, partly readable

> Still possible: The inscriptions are short Northwest Semitic votive texts and personal names, readable in part: dedications to the Lady (Baalat) at the…

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# Short Northwest Semitic votive texts and names, partly readable

The inscriptions are short Northwest Semitic votive texts and personal names, readable in part: dedications to the Lady (Baalat) at the temple and names or pleas of workers at the mines.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- New readings will continue to find Northwest Semitic names, divine names and short formulae, not administrative lists or long prose.
- Any new bilingual or longer text will contain Baalat, El or other Semitic divine names and the votive preposition l.
- No reading will require sign values unsupported by the Phoenician descendants.

## What would rule it out

- A secure bilingual or longer text whose content is not Semitic or not votive.
- Demonstration that b'lt is a coincidental sign group, for example by its appearance in a non-Semitic context.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[The descendant Canaanite script wrote ordinary Northwest Semitic sentences, as the seventeen-letter wish against lice…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEE96H241Z2/the-descendant-canaanite-script-wrote-ordinary-northwest)

Supported

FOR

[The recurring sign group reads b'lt, "Lady", by acrophonic values, and sits on a sphinx whose Egyptian text is a…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEE968TSG59/the-recurring-sign-group-reads-blt-lady-by-acrophonic-values)

Established

FOR

## The questions it answers

[What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

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