Serabit el-Khadim

Coordinates: 29°2′12″N 33°27′33″E / 29.03667°N 33.45917°E / 29.03667; 33.45917
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Remains of Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim

Serabit el-Khadim (

Sesostris I (reigned 1971 BC to 1926 BC) and was partly reconstructed in the New Kingdom.[1]

Inscriptions

#346 of the Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, found by Flinders Petrie

Thirty incised

Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew. The incisions date from the beginning of the 16th century BC.[3]

Gallery

See also

  • Dophkah

References

  1. ^ Fuller, Michael J. "Serabit Temple". St Louis Community College. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  2. ^ McCarter, P. Kyle. "The Early Diffusion of the Alphabet". The Biblical Archaeologist. 37 (3 (September 1974:54–68)): 56–58.
  3. ^ "Sinaitic inscriptions | ancient writing". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

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