# Full readings of the same Sinai and Wadi el-Hol texts by Albright, Wilson-Wright and Puech disagree with one another…

> Full readings of the same Sinai and Wadi el-Hol texts by Albright, Wilson-Wright and Puech disagree with one another, and a 2025 Egyptological survey…

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

# Full readings of the same Sinai and Wadi el-Hol texts by Albright, Wilson-Wright and Puech disagree with one another…

Full readings of the same Sinai and Wadi el-Hol texts by Albright, Wilson-Wright and Puech disagree with one another, and a 2025 Egyptological survey still calls the Wadi el-Hol texts undeciphered.

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## What it means

Key question[What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Unreadable beyond a few words with present evidence](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDXKM3WAAA/unreadable-beyond-a-few-words-with-present-evidence)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Next steps 4

1

Extend the corpus list (DAT0DEDVG40T7X0) with a sign-by-sign transliteration of every inscription from Sass 1988 and Hamilton 2006, marking uncertain and damaged signs, so readings can be compared on one table.

~20 h

[On: What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

**—** not judged

2

Transliterate every inscription sign by sign into the corpus list from Sass 1988 and Hamilton 2006.

~20 h

[On: What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

**—** not judged

3

Collate the published full readings (Albright 1966, Wilson-Wright 2016, Puech 2024, Darnell et al. 2005) inscription by inscription, and score where they agree on sign identity, direction and word division.

~12 h

[On: What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

**—** not judged

4

Compare sign counts on each rock panel between the 1917 Gardiner-Peet plates (DAT0DEDVGPGMXDV), Butin's copies and the British Museum photographs, to list which signs have been lost or are disputed since discovery.

~8 h

[On: What do the Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol inscriptions say?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW6M9X8F5/what-do-the-proto-sinaitic-and-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-say)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 4

[Inscriptions alphabétiques du Ouâdî el-Ḥôl](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKFVYSQQ0/inscriptions-alphabetiques-du-ouadi-el-hol)

Puech 2024

SRC

[Sinai 357: A Northwest Semitic Votive Inscription to Teššob](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJA5QF1WX/sinai-357-a-northwest-semitic-votive-inscription-to-tessob)

Wilson-Wright 2016

SRC

[The Egyptian Background of Early Alphabetic Writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK30BF9Y0/the-egyptian-background-of-early-alphabetic-writing)

Haring 2025

SRC

[The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and Their Decipherment](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHK7BXY9J/the-proto-sinaitic-inscriptions-and-their-decipherment)

Albright 1966

SRC

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