# Artifacts: Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

> The 6 artifacts of Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet: photos, scans, transcriptions and documents, each with its own catalog key.

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**MYS** 0DEDPKNZB213·[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)

# Artifacts 6

Every copy this mystery rests on, each with its own key and its distance from the original.

Photo1 step from object

[Photograph: Proto-Sinaitic inscription on the Serabit statuette (Sinai 346), Petrie 1906](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDR6N0P78E/photograph-proto-sinaitic-inscription-on-the-serabit)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain

Photo1 step from object

[The Serabit sphinx, Sinai 345: photo (Petrie 1906, fig. 141)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTJDC8THW/the-serabit-sphinx-sinai-345-photo-petrie-1906-fig-141)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain

Photo1 step from object

[The Serabit sphinx, Sinai 345: British Museum collection record and photographs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTKRCKQF3/the-serabit-sphinx-sinai-345-british-museum-collection)

Trustees of the British Museum · Trustees of the British Museum; reuse under the museum's terms of use (licence not stated on the record page)

Photo1 step from object

[The Serabit statuette, Sinai 346: photo (Petrie 1906, figs 138-139)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTMXH61S2/the-serabit-statuette-sinai-346-photo-petrie-1906-figs-138)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain

Scan1 step from object

[The Lachish 2018 sherd: open-access photographs and drawings (Höflmayer et al. 2021)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTQ232EXT/the-lachish-2018-sherd-open-access-photographs-and-drawings)

Höflmayer, Misgav, Webster and Streit · CC BY 4.0

Document1 step from object

[Wadi el-Hol: the Egyptian rock inscriptions in context (OIP 119, free PDF)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTQQDJ6T0/wadi-el-hol-the-egyptian-rock-inscriptions-in-context-oip)

Darnell, J. C. and others · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0