The letter A comes from the Greek letter alpha (Α α), which, in turn, originates from "alep," the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet. Alep may have originated from the pictogram of a bull's head in Proto-Sinaitic writing. The Phoenicians, precisely, named this letter 'Aleph,' which means "bull" in Phoenician, due to its resemblance to the head of a bull. The form of this pictogram comes from the ancient Egyptian hieratic script, which represented the head of the god Apis (a bull with horns).