The article contends that the adoption of the alphabetic script in the Levant in the LB II–early Iron Age is best explained by the scribal activity of the Empire’s representatives in the Egyptian centres of government and by the display of artefacts written in the hieroglyphic script in these centres. The early alphabetic inscriptions clustered mainly in regions located near the Egyptian centres of Gaza, Joppa, Beth-shean and Kumidi and the city-states of Lachish and Byblos. The latter was the first city that developed extensive writing in the alphabetic script and the first to form a scribal school under the patronage of its royal court. Although the Egyptian display inscriptions and scribal culture inspired the local Canaanite elites, the latter, rather than adopting the prestigious Egyptian script and language, absorbed only the idea of writing, and applied it to their culture in the revolutionary medium invented hundreds of years earlier in the Sinai Peninsula.

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埃及中心和字母表在黎凡特的分布

这篇文章认为，在 LB II 早期铁器时代，黎凡特采用字母文字的最佳解释是，帝国代表在埃及政府中心的抄写活动，以及用象形文字书写的手工艺品的展示这些中心。早期的字母铭文主要集中在靠近埃及中心的加沙、约帕、贝思谢恩和库米迪以及拉吉和比布鲁斯城邦的地区。后者是第一个用字母书写大量文字的城市，也是第一个在其皇家宫廷的赞助下形成抄写学校的城市。虽然埃及的铭文和抄写文化启发了当地的迦南精英，但后者并没有采用著名的埃及文字和语言，只吸收了写作的思想，