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Phoenician Heth
CulturalSeedancient-scripts
Construction note
A geometric impression of an archaic Phoenician letter.
About this symbol
- Meaning
- Heth (sound “ḥ”), from a pictograph of a wall or fence.
- Culture / origin
- Phoenicia (Levant)
- Era
- From c. 1050 BCE
- Historical context
- The 22-letter Phoenician abjad spread by sea trade and became the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic scripts.
Public-domain ancient script.
Tags
phoenicianalphabetsemiticancient
SVG source
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