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MYS0DEDPKNZB213·Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

Artifacts 6

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

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Photograph: Proto-Sinaitic inscription on the Serabit statuette (Sinai 346), Petrie 1906
Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain
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The Serabit sphinx, Sinai 345: photo (Petrie 1906, fig. 141)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain
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The Serabit sphinx, Sinai 345: British Museum collection record and photographs
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)
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The Serabit statuette, Sinai 346: photo (Petrie 1906, figs 138-139)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders · Public domain