# Hamilton's palaeography allows use of the script at Serabit over several centuries, which would make a single date for…

> Hamilton's palaeography allows use of the script at Serabit over several centuries, which would make a single date for the corpus wrong.

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# Hamilton's palaeography allows use of the script at Serabit over several centuries, which would make a single date for…

Hamilton's palaeography allows use of the script at Serabit over several centuries, which would make a single date for the corpus wrong.

Speculative0

## What it means

Key question[When were the Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions written: in the Middle Kingdom, about 1850 BC, or in the New Kingdom?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW70ERVE3/when-were-the-serabit-el-khadim-inscriptions-written-in-the)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDXY17QJVT/none-of-these)

Bears onnone for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Sources 2

[The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHWQG7RQQ/the-origins-of-the-west-semitic-alphabet-in-egyptian-scripts)

Hamilton 2006

SRC

[The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim in Their Archaeological Context. Part II: Arguments for a Late Date Reviewed](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK4JN07JR/the-proto-sinaitic-inscriptions-at-serabit-el-khadim-in)

Parker 2026

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Hamilton's palaeography allows use of the script at Serabit over several centuries, which would make a single date for… [Evidence EVD0DEEAQWPJRTB]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAQWPJRTB
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**EVD** 0DEEAQWPJRTB

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