# F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp 2023: On Hieratic and the Direction of Alphabetic Writing

> F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, 2023. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 36: 28-47. Argues that early alphabetic…

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# On Hieratic and the Direction of Alphabetic Writing

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, 2023.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Article0

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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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