User:Temerarius/Early Alphabetic

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Comparative

Comparative material for early alphabetic development

Looking for a goad or a shepherd's hook? Try petroglyphs. They could confirm a letter.

Ur

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Petrie

Potter's marks, Tarkhan, by Petrie

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  You could interpret a number of these as Egyptian hieroglyphs, natural/neutral ideograms, or proto Sinaitic script. So how do you choose -- "Which one was the author thinking in?"
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  Dating the vessels that carry these marks can sometimes be done with great precision, but the marks are said to be often more ancient than their scriptors. So how do you date the symbols themselves?

Potter's marks, "Gerar" and "Israel and Palestine", https://biblicalarchaeology.org.uk/pdf/petrie/palestine-and-israel_petrie.pdf by Petrie

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  throw this in here. Much later. Earliest square script we have, Petrie says.

"The Formation of the Alphabet"

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Letters

Discuss individual letters of any script on the talk page.

External links

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