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The Miners Who Invented the Alphabet: A Response to Christopher Rollston

Orly Goldwasser, 2012.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetArticledoi: 10.2458/azu_jaei_v04i3_goldwasser0

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Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4(3): 9-22. Goldwasser's reply to Rollston's argument that the inventors were literate, high-status Semites in Egyptian service: the sign choices, the absence of hieratic forms and the absence of Egyptian sound values point to people who could not read Egyptian.

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Orly Goldwasser (2012). The Miners Who Invented the Alphabet: A Response to Christopher Rollston. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_jaei_v04i3_goldwasser
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