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Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 36: 28-47. Argues that early alphabetic writing had no fixed direction and that the later right-to-left convention came from hieratic practice; by a co-author of the Wadi el-Hol edition.
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F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp (2023). On Hieratic and the Direction of Alphabetic Writing. https://janes.scholasticahq.com/article/75247-on-hieratic-and-the-direction-of-alphabetic-writing
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