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Serabit el-Khadim Inscription

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By Jeff A. Benner


Description: Another inscription from Serabit El-Khadim also discovered by Petrie.

Era: Early Semitic Script

Image Credit: Prof. James R. (Jim) Harris and Dann W Hone

Date of Inscription: c. 1500 BCE

Location of Discovery: Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai Penninsula

Date of Discovery: Early 20th Century

Current Location: Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai Penninsula

Language: Unknown Semitic (Many Semitic words are common among many differnt tribes)

Writing Surface: Stone

Transliteration: EL (Top to bottom)

Translation: God

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