Wadi el-Hôl Inscription 2 and The Early Semitic Alphabetic Graph *ǵ, *ǵull-, »yoke«
In the second of two early alphabetic inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hôl in Egypt, an unidentified graph appears twice. I hypothesize that the acrophone for the graph is the double ox-yoke with neck thongs on each end, which was called a *ǵullu, »yoke« in Proto-Northwest Semitic. According to this hy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
2013
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2013, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Inscription
/ Simile
/ Language
/ Wadi el-Hōl
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology |
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| Summary: | In the second of two early alphabetic inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hôl in Egypt, an unidentified graph appears twice. I hypothesize that the acrophone for the graph is the double ox-yoke with neck thongs on each end, which was called a *ǵullu, »yoke« in Proto-Northwest Semitic. According to this hypothesis, *ǵullu is the acrophone for the Proto-Semitic phoneme */ǵ/. On this basis, I offer a tentative decipherment of the inscription. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/219222713X13757034787711 |