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...
Abstract: Since 2006 the discussion of the origin of the Semitic alphabet has been given an impetus ...
This article presents a Proto-Canaanite inscription written in ink on a jug. It was unearthed in 201...
In recent years, a number of inscriptions dating to the 1st millennium B.C. have been discovered wit...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
The article presents the beginnings of alphabetic writing in Sinai (Serabit al-Chadim) in the contex...
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...
Scholars trace the roots of most historical and modern alphabets in the Near East and Europe, includ...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
After its decipherment in the middle of the 19th century, cuneiform came to be, together with its nu...
Among the thousands of scarabs, scaraboids and other stamp-seal amulets unearthed in Iron Age contex...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
Abstract: Since 2006 the discussion of the origin of the Semitic alphabet has been given an impetus ...
This article presents a Proto-Canaanite inscription written in ink on a jug. It was unearthed in 201...
In recent years, a number of inscriptions dating to the 1st millennium B.C. have been discovered wit...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them...
The article presents the beginnings of alphabetic writing in Sinai (Serabit al-Chadim) in the contex...
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...
Scholars trace the roots of most historical and modern alphabets in the Near East and Europe, includ...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Abstract: The abundance of uraeus iconography in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Canaan has led most sc...
After its decipherment in the middle of the 19th century, cuneiform came to be, together with its nu...
Among the thousands of scarabs, scaraboids and other stamp-seal amulets unearthed in Iron Age contex...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
Abstract: Since 2006 the discussion of the origin of the Semitic alphabet has been given an impetus ...
This article presents a Proto-Canaanite inscription written in ink on a jug. It was unearthed in 201...
In recent years, a number of inscriptions dating to the 1st millennium B.C. have been discovered wit...