Sinai alphabet - Shinai characters

Japanese: シナイ文字 - しないもじ
Sinai alphabet - Shinai characters

An early alphabetic character discovered in 1905 by British archaeologist W. M. F. Petrie at the Sarabit el-Khadim ruins in the south of the Sinai Peninsula. All Sinai inscriptions written in this character are crude, graffiti-like, and are thought to have been used by people involved in the copper mines that were located here around 1700 BC. In 1916, British Egyptologist A. Gardiner deciphered part of it and estimated that it was close to the prototype of the Phoenician alphabet, which consists of 22 consonant letters (the prototype of all later alphabetic characters). It is based on the principle of acrophony (a method of indicating the initial sound b with a figure representing bēt "house").

[Yajima Fumio]

[Reference] | Alphabet

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

1905年にイギリスの考古学者W・M・F・ピートリによりシナイ半島南方のサラービト・エル・ハーディム遺跡で発見された初期アルファベット文字。この文字で書かれたシナイ刻文はすべて落書き風の稚拙なもので、紀元前1700年前後のころここにあった銅鉱山の関係者によって使われたものと思われる。1916年にイギリスのエジプト学者A・ガーディナーがその一部を解読し、22個の子音文字からなるフェニキア文字(後代の全アルファベット文字の原型)の原型に近いものと推定した。アクロフォニーの原理(bēt「家」を表す図形で頭音bを示す方式)によっている。

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