Serabit el-Khadim
Serabit el-Khadim (
Sesostris I (reigned 1971 BC to 1926 BC) and was partly reconstructed in the New Kingdom.[1]
Inscriptions
Thirty incised
Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew. The incisions date from the beginning of the 16th century BC.[3]
Gallery
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Illustration prepared by a 19th-century Prussian expedition
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Floor plan of the Hathor temple in Serabit el-Khadim
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1840s sketch from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
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Sarabit el Khadim in the 1869 Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
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1906 map of Flinders Petrie
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2009
See also
- Dophkah
References
- ^ Fuller, Michael J. "Serabit Temple". St Louis Community College. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ McCarter, P. Kyle. "The Early Diffusion of the Alphabet". The Biblical Archaeologist. 37 (3 (September 1974:54–68)): 56–58.
- ^ "Sinaitic inscriptions | ancient writing". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
Sources
- Albright, W. F. (April 1948). "The Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Sinai and Their Decipherment". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (110). Oakland: 6–22. S2CID 163924917.
- Butin, Romain F. (January 1928). "The Serâbît Inscriptions: II. The Decipherment and Significance of the Inscriptions". Harvard Theological Review. 21 (1). Cambridge University Press: 9–67. S2CID 163011970.
- Butin, Romain F. (April 1932). "The Protosinaitic Inscriptions". Harvard Theological Review. 25 (2): 130–203. S2CID 161237361.
- Flinders Petrie, W. M. (1906). Researches in Sinai. London: John Murray.
- Giveon, R. (1978). The Stones of Sinai speak. Tokyo: Galuseisha. ASIN B0007B5V1A.
- Eckenstein, Lina (1921). A History of Sinai. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
- Lake, Kirsopp; Blake, Robert P. (January 1928). "The Serâbît Inscriptions: I. The Rediscovery of the Inscriptions". Harvard Theological Review. 21 (1): 1–8. S2CID 161474162.
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