Word: serabit
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...mean to mock the Serabit...
...Lake was decidedly unlucky when mounting his camel just before the ascent of Mr. Serabit on the Sinali Peninsula and gave the muscles of his back a severe wrenching. Once in the saddle, however, he decided to continue the journey up the mountain, believing the injury to be slight...
Professor Kirsopp Lake, who is leading an expedition excavating the ancient Egyptian temple Hathor, was seriously injured when he was bumped by a camel during a caravan journey to Serabit it was learned at Harvard yesterday...
Members of the Harvard archaeological expedition to Egypt headed by Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, are reported to be working on the site of ancient turquoise mines at Serabit which has long been famous for its ruined temple of the goddess Hather. She is usually represented with cow's horns and wearing a moon-shaped disc...
...Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...