# None of these.

> Still possible: None of these.

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Answer · Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

# None of these.

None of these.

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

## Where it stands

**Still possible** No evidence yet. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Further finds will show a sign inventory larger than an alphabet's or a context later than Early Bronze IVA.

## What would rule it out

- Further finds consistent with a small consonantal inventory in Early Bronze contexts.

## Evidence none for · none against

[Rollston first suspected the cylinders were intrusive from the second millennium before accepting the stratigraphy.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEB345M1PT/rollston-first-suspected-the-cylinders-were-intrusive-from)

Speculative

NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

[Are the Umm el-Marra clay cylinders of about 2400 BC alphabetic writing?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW8MZFBEA/are-the-umm-el-marra-clay-cylinders-of-about-2400-bc)

Open3 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). None of these. [Answer ANS0DEDYPP227N7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDYPP227N7
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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/sessions/SES0DEEC4SCCB1B/session-1-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-seeded-corpus) · 31 Oct 2026

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