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Early Semitic Script

Image credit: Bruce Zuckerman and Marilyn Lundberg


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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