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Proto‑Sinaitic and Proto‑Canaanite Alphabetic Graffiti (c. 18th–12th centuries BCE)
1850 BCE - 2010
12 entries
Phoenician Maritime Script and Colonial Transmission across the Mediterranean (c. 1200–200 BCE)
1500 BCE - 146 BCE
12 entries
Greek Adoption and Local Adaptation of the Alphabet (c. 8th–4th centuries BCE)
800 BCE - 350 BCE
12 entries
Aramaic Script as Administrative Lingua Franca in the Near East (c. 9th century BCE–3rd century CE)
870 BCE - 274
14 entries