Proto-Sinaitic script
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The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30–40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as two inscri
Proto-Sinaitic inscription #346, the first published photograph of the script. The line running from the upper left to lower right may read mt l bʿlt '... to the Lady'
Traces of the 16 and 12 characters of the two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions
Serabit el-Khadim
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Serabit el-Khadim is a locality in the southwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, where valuable resources such as turquoise were mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egyptians. Archaeological
Remains of Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim
#346 of the Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, found by Flinders Petrie
Amenemhat III offers to Hathor, court P, Temple of Hathor, Serabit el-Khadim, South Sinai, Egypt
Illustration prepared by a 19th-century Prussian expedition