# Daniel Vainstub 2022: A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish

> Daniel Vainstub, Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Michael G. Hasel et al., 2022. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 2…

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# A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish

Daniel Vainstub, Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Michael G. Hasel et al., 2022.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Articledoi: **[10.52486/01.00002.4](https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4)** 0

## What it's used for here

Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 2: 76-119. Seventeen letters in seven words on an ivory comb, read as a wish that the comb root out lice; the first full sentence in the early Canaanite alphabet, dated on letter forms to about 1700 BC (no stratigraphic date).

## Cited by on this site 5 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)

ART

[Every secure word in the corpus (b'lt, l "to", 'l "god", rb "chief") is Northwest Semitic, and the descendant script…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEA2P825X3/every-secure-word-in-the-corpus-blt-l-to-l-god-rb-chief-is)

Evidence

EVD

[The descendant Canaanite script wrote ordinary Northwest Semitic sentences, as the seventeen-letter wish against lice…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEE96H241Z2/the-descendant-canaanite-script-wrote-ordinary-northwest)

Evidence

EVD

[Vainstub and colleagues read a seventeen-letter sentence on an ivory comb from Lachish](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS2RJ8K7B/vainstub-and-colleagues-read-a-seventeen-letter-sentence-on)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Daniel Vainstub, Madeleine Mumcuoglu, Michael G. Hasel, Katherine M. Hesler, Miriam Lavi, Rivka Rabinovich, Yuval Goren, & Yosef Garfinkel (2022). A Canaanite's Wish to Eradicate Lice on an Inscribed Ivory Comb from Lachish. https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00002.4)

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