Phoenician alphabet
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The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad that was used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Ara
Study of Phoenician medals, by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Photograph of section of the Zayit Stone, 10th century BC: (right-to-left) the letters waw, he, het, zayin, tet (𐤅𐤄𐤇𐤆𐤈)
Phoenician alphabet, deciphered by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in 1758. No.1 is from the Cippi of Melqart, No.2 is from the coins, and No. 3 is from the Pococke Kition inscriptions.
A page from the Samaritan version of Leviticus
Hebrew alphabet
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The Hebrew alphabet or aleph-bet, known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language
The Aleppo Codex, a tenth-century Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. Book of Joshua 1:1
14th century tarsh blockprint from the Cairo Geniza; quoting Deuteronomy 28:6, likely intended to be hung on a doorway or as a welcome placard.
The lower clock on the Jewish Town Hall building in Prague, with Hebrew numerals in counterclockwise order.
The four-pronged Shin