Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them apparently connected with the Egyptian copper-mining activity in the region, notably at Timna, in the period of the Ramessides. The most striking detail in these texts is a sign corresponding to an Egyptian hieroglyph (N6B ) which depicts two serpents guarding the sun-disc, and another with one serpent (N6 , ); these never appear on conventional tables of early alphabetic letters; this leads to a critical reappraisal of current identifications of the original picture-signs, and elaboration of a new system of interpreting early Canaanite inscriptions, involving recognition that the signs could sometimes stand for whole words and could also be...
International audienceThis is an investigation of a new dedicatory Sabaean inscription from the anci...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
International audienceThe paper present the preliminary results of the survey in Wadi Ramm. Many ins...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
Abstract: Visual codes including three types of signs (logograms, phonograms and determinatives) ar...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
The article presents the beginnings of alphabetic writing in Sinai (Serabit al-Chadim) in the contex...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Among the thousands of scarabs, scaraboids and other stamp-seal amulets unearthed in Iron Age contex...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
After its decipherment in the middle of the 19th century, cuneiform came to be, together with its nu...
In recent years, a number of inscriptions dating to the 1st millennium B.C. have been discovered wit...
Abstract: This article studies the chronology of the New Kingdom Egyptian copper mining in the south...
The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of th...
International audienceThis is an investigation of a new dedicatory Sabaean inscription from the anci...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
International audienceThe paper present the preliminary results of the survey in Wadi Ramm. Many ins...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
Abstract: Visual codes including three types of signs (logograms, phonograms and determinatives) ar...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
The article presents the beginnings of alphabetic writing in Sinai (Serabit al-Chadim) in the contex...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Among the thousands of scarabs, scaraboids and other stamp-seal amulets unearthed in Iron Age contex...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
After its decipherment in the middle of the 19th century, cuneiform came to be, together with its nu...
In recent years, a number of inscriptions dating to the 1st millennium B.C. have been discovered wit...
Abstract: This article studies the chronology of the New Kingdom Egyptian copper mining in the south...
The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of th...
International audienceThis is an investigation of a new dedicatory Sabaean inscription from the anci...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
International audienceThe paper present the preliminary results of the survey in Wadi Ramm. Many ins...