Template:Did you know nominations/Phoenician arrowheads
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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 07:24, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
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Phoenician arrowheads
Phoenician arrowheads
- ... that the earliest-known Phoenician inscriptions (examples pictured) were found near Bethlehem? Source: Cross, Frank Moore (1980). "Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 238 (238 (Spring, 1980)). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research: 1–20. doi:10.2307/1356511. JSTOR 1356511. S2CID 222445150.
The discovery in 1953 of three arrowheads from 'El-Khadr inscribed with three identical inscriptions of the late 12th century B.c. initiated a new stage in the study of alphabetic origins (Cross and Milik 1954: 5-15; Cross and Milik 1956: 15-23). The brief texts of the arrowheads provided secure readings of alphabetic signs at precisely the period of transition from the older pictographic (ProtoCanaanite or Old Canaanite) script to the Early Linear (Phoenician) alphabet.
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Self-nominated at 09:56, 23 July 2022 (UTC).
- OK sounds like an interesting subject - I will review this - hope to start soon - ping me if not started in a couple of days Chidgk1 (talk) 07:07, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Onceinawhile: New enough, long enough, checked no copyvio, do you want to change the redlink to al-Khader or make a redirect? The cite is very old - might they not have found earlier inscriptions since 1980? Chidgk1 (talk) 18:08, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- As 3 refs Mitchell, Sass and Deutsch et al are not used you could delete them or move to "further reading" Chidgk1 (talk) 18:18, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Would the short description be better as "Arrowheads from the 11th century BC onwards, inscribed in Phoenician"?
- Ah I now see you have a recent cite that still only one found in context - so I guess that shows still oldest. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Chidgk1, thanks for all these comments, which were very constructive. I believe I have now implemented them all. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:55, 27 July 2022 (UTC)