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- Title
Sinai 357: A Northwest Semitic Votive Inscription to Teššob.
- Authors
WILSON-WRIGHT, AREN MAX
- Abstract
Although Sinai 357 is one of the longest and best-preserved early alphabetic inscriptions from Serabit el-Khadem, these characteristics have not made it any easier to interpret. Most scholars read it as a command from a mining foreman to one of his subordinates, but this reading creates logical and contextual problems. To avoid these problems, I read Sinai 357 as a votive inscription to the Hurrian deity Teššob that employs language similar to first-millennium Northwest Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Such a reading reflects cultural and linguistic contact between speakers of Egyptian, Hurrian, and a Northwest Semitic language at the site of Serabit el-Khadem.
- Subjects
HURRIANS; GODS; NORTHWEST Semitic languages; EGYPTIAN language; HURRIAN language; SARABIT al-Khadim Site (Egypt)
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2016, Vol 136, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.136.2.247