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On your chart are they supposed to have a line drawn to form something?
Hmmm, I should have spent a little more time explaining but perhaps a letter chart would be a better idea to explain what you see in the image file. There are a number of very ancient writings on anything from rocks to ostraca, (pottery sherds), where the most ancient known letters of the ABGaD are found. Typically the letter Zayin, in its most ancient form, is two horizontal lines, (and sometimes with a vertical bar connecting them but not here). Sometimes the two lines are straight but in the oldest examples they bend downward at the left pretty much as seen in the image file I posted. Note the examples of the letter Zayin in the following letter chart:
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I found this image on Pinterest but it appears to be the work of Douglas Petrovich. Notice his estimation of the meaning of the letter zayin is the word ze'ah, sweat, which is what it means, but then in parenthesis he notes that he believes it to be in the sense of the brow of the forehead, (no doubt because that is what the pictograph looks like). The more common speculation is that the zayin pictograph represents a mattock or some type of plowing instrument and this is taken mostly from a later pictograph that has the vertical bar in the middle connecting the two horizontal lines. My understanding comes from the letter resh which I see right there at the end of the letter for phonetic z, written in the heavens, making it a crown, zer. In other words the name of the constellation, Zer, is right there in the constellation.
PS: I just went and checked, and yes, it is the work of Douglas Petrovich, so I should post a link:
Discoveries Indicate Hebrew was World’s Oldest Alphabet - Part 3 | Patterns of Evidence
In this third of a three-part series, we will look at perhaps the most profound and controversial interpretation proposed by Dr. Douglas Petrovich allowing the possibility that Moses actually was the author of the earliest writings in the Bible.
www.patternsofevidence.com
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