# Tel Lachish · Place > Bronze and Iron Age city mound. In Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/places/PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX/tel-lachish Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)[Places](https://mysteriesdept.com/places)Tel Lachish Place · tell · in 1 mystery # Tel Lachish Bronze and Iron Age city mound [Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)[3 events][31.5647° N, 34.8489° E] Tel Lachish is a tell in the record of Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet, placed to about 100 m. Three events on the site happened here, between 1449 and 2022: An ink inscription of six letters is written on a Cypriot bowl at Lachish, later radiocarbon-dated to the 15th century BC, and later Vainstub and colleagues read a seventeen-letter sentence on an ivory comb from Lachish. Source of the Lachish dagger, ewer and bowl inscriptions, the 2018 sherd dated to the 15th century BC and the ivory comb. One artifact in the record is tied to it, including The Lachish early alphabetic texts: the 2018 bowl sherd and the ivory comb. Written from the site's records. [Improve it](https://mysteriesdept.com/developers) Placed from Wikipedia article coordinates for Tel Lachish (31.5647 N, 34.8489 E) · Placed to about 100 m[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic#map) ## In the mysteries **Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Bronze and Iron Age city mound · 3 events [The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic) ## What happened here 3 -1449[An ink inscription of six letters is written on a Cypriot bowl at Lachish, later radiocarbon-dated to the 15th century BC](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDRMTN6W9W/an-ink-inscription-of-six-letters-is-written-on-a-cypriot) 2021[Höflmayer and colleagues publish the radiocarbon-dated Lachish sherd, closing the gap between Sinai and the Canaanite corpus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS208K5EH/hoflmayer-and-colleagues-publish-the-radiocarbon-dated) 2022[Vainstub and colleagues read a seventeen-letter sentence on an ivory comb from Lachish](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS2RJ8K7B/vainstub-and-colleagues-read-a-seventeen-letter-sentence-on) ## Nearby within 500 km [Soreq Cave](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D464H3W3M5P/soreq-cave) cave 27 km NE [Ashkelon](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D464GCE7WJC/ashkelon) city 31 km W [Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D484FZW20S7/shrine-of-the-book-israel-museum-jerusalem) museum 41 km NE [Jerusalem](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CT7MZ7M2Z31/jerusalem) city 41 km NE [Judaean Desert](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D484F0M1HBQ/judaean-desert) region 48 km E [Mar Saba monastery (St Sabbas), south-east of Jerusalem](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CT7MZZ20YG7/mar-saba-monastery-st-sabbas-south-east-of-jerusalem) monastery 48 km E ## Artifacts 1 [The Lachish early alphabetic texts: the 2018 bowl sherd and the ivory comb](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/artifacts/ART0DEDT7ARBYRC/the-lachish-early-alphabetic-texts-the-2018-bowl-sherd-and) Object ART ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. (2026). Tel Lachish [Place PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX ``` Key **PLC** 0DEDPXDA5SVX Record Place Kind Tell Position 31.5647° N, 34.8489° E Precision About 100 m Placed from Wikipedia article coordinates for Tel Lachish (31.5647 N, 34.8489 E) In [Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic) Version 1 Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) [ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1123998) **How this page is made.** The position and its precision are the record's, checked against OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; the map is drawn from Natural Earth. Everything else is the site's own record of what happened here. Six other places on the site lie within 500 km. The record Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history. [JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/PLC0DEDPXDA5SVX)