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Proto-Sinaitic script. Child systems. Phoenician. South Semitic. ISO 15924. ISO 15924. Psin (103), Proto-Sinaitic. History of the alphabet. The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30-40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two ...
Details of the Proto-Sinaitic / Proto-Canaanite script, which was used in Sinai in Egypt, and in Canaan (modern Lebannon, with parts of Israel, Palestine and Syria) to write an ancient Semitic language.
List of symbols. The following Proto-Sinaitic pairs of signs probably merge into (>) a single sign in Proto-Canaanite inscriptions: d and z > z. ḥ and ḫ > ḥ. š and t > š. The question mark (?) when found in the signs column means that the sign itself is uncertain, when found in the names column means that the name (or its meaning) is uncertain.
The ‘Proto Sinaitic’ script is first attested on inscriptions beginning in the 19th century BCE at Wadi el Hol at the Qena bend of the Nile River in Egypt and at Serabit el Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula. It consists of a set of pictographic signs, most of which are believed to be derived from Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
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The above short sign lists were used because their study was confined to signs found in the inscription of the Land of Canaan, the Negev and the Sinai that were included in their research. Old Negev has a stronger link to Proto-Canaanite and Proto-Sinaitic than does Canaanite Phoenician.
The term “Proto-Sinaitic” was first used by W.F. Albright to refer to the earliest inscriptions from Sinai written in a linear pictographic alphabet. These inscriptions were found about a century ago at Serabit el-Khadim, a copper and turquoise mining area on the Sinai Peninsula. This term is useful to distinguish these inscriptions from ...
This article presents the theory of Celeste Claire Horner that individual letters of the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet and many of the undeciphered Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions pay homage, and offer prayer and praise, to various Fertile Crescent divinities, gods of the Canaanite, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian pantheons such as Hathor, Mistress of ...
