The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c6.74

c6.74

7. That the Brahmi, Sabaean, a portion of the Cypriote and a portion of the Phoenician scripts are derived from Proto-Indian, due in the last three cases to commercial intercourse by sea via the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. It is possible that the Indians had the monopoly of seafaring as far as the Gulf of Suez, which would account for Hiram's eagerness for an alliance with Solomon that would allow the Phoenicians to establish a base at Eziongeber.¹