Sir Alan Gardiner

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Sir Alan Gardiner

British Egyptologist

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Sinaitic inscriptions
…end was from British Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, who in 1916 deciphered one group of symbols as the name of a Semitic female deity, Baʿalat; this conclusion was based on similarities in letter form between the Sinaitic symbols and Semitic counterparts. Gardiner’s research also indicated a relationship between the Sinaitic…
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…end was from British Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, who in 1916 deciphered one group of symbols as the name of a Semitic female deity, Baʿalat; this conclusion was based on similarities in letter form between the Sinaitic symbols and Semitic counterparts. Gardiner’s research also indicated a relationship between the Sinaitic…
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