Early Semitic Script
| AHRC ID#: |
35 |
| Date of Writing: |
c. 2000 BCE |
| Location of Discovery: |
Wadi el-Hol, Egypt |
| Date of Discovery: |
1998 |
| Current Location: |
Wadi el-Hol, Egypt |
| Language: |
Unknown Semitic (Many Semitic words are common among many differnt tribes) |
| Writing Surface: |
Stone |
| Transliteration: |
R-B-Q-W-M-W-H-W-Gor P-M-H?-A-Ah?-M-Ghor Hh-R? (right to left) |
| Translation: |
This is just an educated guess - Many (R-B/rav) Rise (Q-W-M/qum) and (W) toil (H-W-G/hug) from (M) the (H) ? (A-Ah) from (M) the City (Gh-R/Ghiyr)
(Translation by Jeff A. Benner) |
| Comments: |
This apparently Semitic inscription is the oldest example of an alphabetic inscription.
For more information on this inscription see the links below;
Wikipedia
Archeology.org
West Semitic Research Project
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