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RE: SV: SV: [ANE-2] Proto-Canaanite Hebrew Ostracon from Khirbet Qeiyafah

Dear Yitzhak,

Thanks for this. I thought someone said that the letters are from left to
right, but according to your labels, they are right to left, no?

Liz Fried



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Yitzhak Sapir
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Subject: Re: SV: SV: [ANE-2] Proto-Canaanite Hebrew Ostracon from Khirbet
Qeiyafah



I uploaded to the Canaanite list an image that shows the relevant letters
of "Don't do" highlighted, as well as a few others on the image reproduced
on most websites, and apparently part of the press release. These are
clearly Proto-Canaanite forms:

http://groups. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canaanite/message/93>
yahoo.com/group/canaanite/message/93

Yitzhak Sapir





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Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:36 pm

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I uploaded to the Canaanite list an image that shows the relevant letters of "Don't do" highlighted, as well as a few others on the image reproduced on most...
Yitzhak Sapir
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Dear Yitzhak, Thanks for this. I thought someone said that the letters are from left to right, but according to your labels, they are right to left, no? Liz...
Lisbeth S. Fried
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Oct 31, 2008
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... Brian Colless responding to Liz Fried on the direction of the writing: (See also my posting on ' LT `Sh) ... that the direction is left to right, as on the...
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Dear Richard, Just arriving home from a stay abroad (and starting the inevitable marking of papers) I'll try to do so soon. Bests, Frank Polak...
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Nov 2, 2008
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... What a relief! At my stage of life I cannot afford to be mislaying days in which to complete my life's work. ... Yes, but Proto-Sinaitic (like...
Brian Colless
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Well, some of the finds received publication today in a book that accompanied the conference at Hebrew Univ today from where all these press releases came....
Yitzhak Sapir
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Oct 30, 2008
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... I believe the lecture referred to was one given to NP by Peter on the list back in April of 2007 about the fact that linguistic classifications are ...
Robert M Whiting
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Oct 30, 2008
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Not the most useful of photos! I think Niels Peter must have been referring to a "lecture" here in ANE-2 or back in ANE, though I don't recall anything...
Peter T. Daniels
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Oct 30, 2008
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I was just referring to the separation of Ugaritic from Canaanite, dialectically speaking. Or did I miss something. Niels Peter Lemche ... Fra:...
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No, they give an idea of the poor legibility of the inscription. But it also gives an idea of the script, as Frank Polak said. See for example the "A" letter...
Yitzhak Sapir
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Oct 30, 2008
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Yitzhak, That answers my question about legibility, I suppose. And my printouts of the pictures are not as good as what I can see on my big iMac screen. To...
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