# The Serabit statuette, Sinai 346 (Egyptian Museum JE 38268)

> A kneeling sandstone figure of local workmanship from the doorway of the shrine of Sopdu in the Hathor temple, with a Proto-Sinaitic inscription on its…

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# The Serabit statuette, Sinai 346 (Egyptian Museum JE 38268)

ObjectPublic domainMiddle Kingdom or early New Kingdom (disputed)

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://archive.org/details/researchesinsina00petruoft).

A kneeling sandstone figure of local workmanship from the doorway of the shrine of Sopdu in the Hathor temple, with a Proto-Sinaitic inscription on its front and sides. Petrie's photograph of it (1906, fig. 139) is the first published image of the script; the line is read as ending in l b'lt, "to the Lady".

Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Public domain

## Copies 1

**Photo (petrie 1906, figs 138-139)** Petrie, W. M. Flinders · archive.org · 1905 · Public domainPrimary source: [Researches in Sinai](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHGPCAVPJ/researches-in-sinai)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://archive.org/details/researchesinsina00petruoft)

## Where it is kept

[Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Tahrir)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/places/PLC0DEDPY0EP8B4/egyptian-museum-cairo-tahrir) · Museum

## Sources 3

- [Researches in Sinai](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHGPCAVPJ/researches-in-sinai)_SRC_
- [The Egyptian Origin of the Semitic Alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHH33XVG5/the-egyptian-origin-of-the-semitic-alphabet)_SRC_
- [The Inscriptions of Sinai, Part I: Introduction and Plates](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHJABP9KX/the-inscriptions-of-sinai-part-i-introduction-and-plates)_SRC_

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Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom (disputed)

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Public domain

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