Albright, WF - All Bright

Japanese: オールブライト,W.F. - おーるぶらいと
Albright, WF - All Bright

…In a 1916 paper, British Egyptologist AH Gardiner considered the characters to be a monophonic script intermediate between Egyptian hieroglyphics and Northwest Semitic script (the so-called Phoenician alphabet), because they were linear characters similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. He published the results of his partial decipherment. Later, in a 1966 paper, WF Albright identified 23 consonant characters and deciphered most of the inscription. The language is a dialect of Canaanite (Semitic language) from the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, and the contents of these inscriptions, estimated to be from around 1500 BC, are said to be votive inscriptions made by miners at the time to the Egyptian goddess Hathor, who was worshiped in an adjacent temple. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Albright, WF" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…イギリスのエジプト学者ガーディナーA.H.Gardinerは1916年の論文で,この文字がエジプト聖刻文字(ヒエログリフ)に似た線文字であることから,エジプト聖刻文字と北西セム文字(いわゆる〈フェニキアのアルファベット〉)の中間段階に位置する単音文字と考え,その一部の解読の結果を発表した。のちオールブライトW.F.Albrightは1966年の論文で,23個の子音文字を確認,碑文の大部分を解読した。この言語は前2千年紀前半のカナン語(セム語族)の一方言で,前1500年ころのものと推定されるこれら碑文の内容は,当時の鉱山労働者が,隣接する神殿に祭られたエジプトの女神ハトホルにささげた奉納文である,といわれる。…

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