Lakish inscriptions: syllabic and consonantal
The West Semitic inscriptions from Lakish (Tel Lachish in southern Israel) are presented as examples of:
West Semitic Syllabic and Consonantal Scripts
Lakish was apparently unoccupied in the time of the Judges in Israel, and so did not experience the Neo-syllabary, though it has yielded examples of the other three West Semitic writing systems in the evolutionary scheme:
Proto-syllabary >
Proto-consonantary >
Neo-consonantary >
Neo-syllabary.
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