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Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link' from Tel Lachish

Felix Höflmayer, Haggai Misgav, Lyndelle Webster et al., 2021.

MYS0DEDPKNZB213 · mystery · click to copyMProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetArticleCopy of The Lachish early alphabetic texts: the 2018 bowl sherd and the ivory combdoi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.1570

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Antiquity 95(381): 705-719, open access (CC BY 4.0). An ink inscription on a Cypriot bowl sherd from Lachish, radiocarbon-dated by Bayesian modelling to about 1460-1430 BC; the oldest securely dated alphabetic text from the Levant.

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Felix Höflmayer, Haggai Misgav, Lyndelle Webster, & Katharina Streit (2021). Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link' from Tel Lachish. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.157
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