A Double Abecedary? Halaḥam and 'Abgad on the TT99 Ostracon
This article attempts to advance the debate on the terms inscribed on an ostracon of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty from the excavation of Theban Tomb 99, suggested by Ben Haring to contain the first historical attestation of the Halaḥam sequence. It presents new etymologies for the words listed on the t...
| Published in: | Bulletin of ASOR |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2018
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Bulletin of ASOR
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| RelBib Classification: | TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Abecedaries
B Semitic languages B Egyptian syllabic writing B alphabet sequence B loanwords in Egyptian B mnemonic verse B history of the alphabet B Berber languages |
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| Summary: | This article attempts to advance the debate on the terms inscribed on an ostracon of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty from the excavation of Theban Tomb 99, suggested by Ben Haring to contain the first historical attestation of the Halaḥam sequence. It presents new etymologies for the words listed on the two sides of the document, all of them in Egyptian syllabic writing. The obverse contains at least the five initial consonants of the Halaḥam sequence; the words of the acrostic may form a mnemonic verse. Additionally, the reverse side may provide the first historical attestation of the beginning of the second and historically more consequential ancient alphabet sequence, the 'Abgad. This sheds important new light on the history of the Semitic alphabets and Egyptian knowledge of alphabetic ordering in the 15th century B.C.E. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.379.0103 |