| No. The letter shapes and ductus, the lack of tracking and kerning, and more features show clearly that this kind of script at this stage of alphabet development, was *not* designed nor apt for flat writing. This is true for Ancient North Arabian alphabetic script types as well as for the so called Proto-Sinaitics. Even if you only have engraved script left, there are sufficient parameters to decide whether a certain script type has a flat writing tradition in its background or not. For the Old Byblian Inscriptions for instance (Ahiram, Shipitbaal, Elibaal etc) there definitely was. For the Proto-Sinaitic, the ANA or the Palestinian Graffiti, also Izbet Sarta or Qeiyafa, there definitely was *not*. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, Academic Director
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