Proto-Sinaitic script

Sources

1. BookThe World’s Writing Systems
2. BookThe Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

deciphered by:

• Alan Gardiner

  Read a recurring word as 'for the Lady'.

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

discovered by:

• Flinders Petrie

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

influenced:

• Phoenician alphabet

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

influenced by:

• Egyptian hieroglyphs

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

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    Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadimc. 1,700 BCE