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| | The Schoyen Collection: 4. Palaeography -- 4.1. The beginning of writing and the first alphabets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | BC, 1 tablet, 5,9x6,5x2,4 cm, 2 columns, 5 compartments of pictographic script, rollsealed on all 6 surfaces with a seal depicting 3 men and a boy herding goats. |
 | | BC (MSS 2726 and 2727), a handful Kish tablets (MS 3008) and 2 tablets from Tell Brak in North Syria that may be ca. |
 | | BC, is the direct descendant of the Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite alphabetical script (see MS 715), which again, developed into the Greek alphabet around 800 BC (see MS 108), that was the basis of the Latin alphabet. |
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