Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai

Orly Goldwasser, 2006.

Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetArticledoi: 10.1553/AEundL16s1210

What it's used for here

Ägypten und Levante 16: 121-160. The full statement of the thesis that Canaanite workers who could not read Egyptian invented the alphabet at Serabit el-Khadim in the late Middle Kingdom by naming hieroglyphic pictures in their own language.

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The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike…

Evidence

EVD

Orly Goldwasser argues that Canaanite workers who could not read Egyptian invented the alphabet in Sinai; Hamilton publishes the sign catalogue

EVT

Semitic-speaking workers at the Sinai turquoise mines leave inscriptions in the new script at the temple and at Mines L and M (date disputed)

EVT

Orly Goldwasser

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

The mystery article

MYS

Who invented the alphabet, and could they read Egyptian?

Question

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Cite it

Orly Goldwasser (2006). Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai. https://doi.org/10.1553/AEundL16s121

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. “Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai.” 2006. https://doi.org/10.1553/AEundL16s121.