A Ugaritic Abecedary and the Origins of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet

F. Cross; T. O. Lambdin

DOI:10.2307/1355644

Corpus ID: 164062269

A Ugaritic Abecedary and the Origins of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet

@article{Cross1960AUA,
  title={A Ugaritic Abecedary and the Origins of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet},
  author={F. Cross and T. O. Lambdin},
  journal={Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research},
  year={1960},
  volume={160},
  pages={21 - 26}
}

F. Cross, T. O. Lambdin

Published 1960

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

Advances in the decipherment of Proto-Canaanite texts during the past twelve years 1 together with the discovery of the el-Khadr arrowheads in 1953 2 have furnished definitive evidence that the conventional Phoenician alphabet 3 evolved directly from the Proto-Canaanite pictographic script. Twelve of the most frequent signs can be traced in detail through their evolution from transparent pictograph to Phoenician letter in deciphered contexts.4 Five others, whose pictographs remain more or less… CONTINUE READING

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