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Photograph: Proto-Sinaitic inscription on the Serabit statuette (Sinai 346), Petrie 1906

Petrie's fig. 139 in Researches in Sinai (1906): the first published photograph of the script, showing the inscription on the kneeling statuette from the Hathor temple, with the sign group later read as b'lt.

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Cropped from leaf 309 of the Internet Archive scan (University of Toronto copy) through the archive.org IIIF image service; figure 139, 'Foreign inscription on above, XVIII dynasty'. Published 1906; Petrie died 1942, so the photograph is in the public domain.

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

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Photograph: Proto-Sinaitic inscription on the Serabit statuette (Sinai 346), Petrie 1906 [Copy CPY0DEDR6N0P78E]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/CPY0DEDR6N0P78E

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  title     = {Photograph: Proto-Sinaitic inscription on the Serabit statuette (Sinai 346), Petrie 1906},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Copy, catalog key CPY0DEDR6N0P78E},
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