# Felix Höflmayer 2021: Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link' from Tel Lachish

> Felix Höflmayer, Haggai Misgav, Lyndelle Webster et al., 2021. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Antiquity 95(381): 705-719, open access (CC BY…

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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.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** ArticleCopy of **[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)** doi: **[10.15184/aqy.2020.157](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.157)** 0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[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)

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[The Lachish 2018 sherd: open-access photographs and drawings (Höflmayer et al. 2021)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTQ232EXT/the-lachish-2018-sherd-open-access-photographs-and-drawings)

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[Höflmayer et al. 2021, Lachish sherd: open-access article with radiocarbon data and figures](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDVJDB3CFM/hoflmayer-et-al-2021-lachish-sherd-open-access-article-with)

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[An alphabetic ink inscription from Lachish comes from a stratum radiocarbon-dated to about 1460-1430 BC, so alphabetic…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEAPTZ8456/an-alphabetic-ink-inscription-from-lachish-comes-from-a)

Evidence

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[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)

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[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)

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[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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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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