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The Egyptian Origin of the Semitic Alphabet

Alan H. Gardiner, 1916.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetArticledoi: 10.2307/38535860

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Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 3(1): 1-16. The founding reading: the recurring group of signs read acrophonically as b-'-l-t, "Lady" (Baalat), and the argument that the signs are hieroglyphs given Semitic letter names.

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Alan H. Gardiner (1916). The Egyptian Origin of the Semitic Alphabet. https://doi.org/10.2307/3853586
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