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The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
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- Estimated between 1800 BC and 1400 BC
The evolution of Proto-Sinaitic and the small number of Proto-Canaanite inscriptions from the Bronze Age is based on rather scant epigraphic evidence; it is only with the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of new Semitic kingdoms in the Levant that Proto-Canaanite is clearly attested (Byblos inscriptions 10th–8th century BC, Khirbet Qeiyafa ...
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- Egyptian hieroglyphsProto-Sinaitic script
Apr 12, 2024 · The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
Byblos (/ ˈ b ɪ b l ɒ s / BIB-loss; Greek: Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Arabic: جُبَيْل, romanized: Jubayl, locally Jbeil [ʒ(ə)beːl]; Phoenician: 𐤂𐤁𐤋, GBL, probably Gebal), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.
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Culture. The Byblos Syllabary, a 3800-year-old Writing System whose Inscriptions Have yet to Be Deciphered. by Guillermo Carvajal January 10, 2024. Detail of one of the inscriptions of the Byblos Syllabary, in the Beirut Museum | photo Onceinawhile on Wikimedia Commons.
The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone.
The most ancient core signs of Byblos script appear in the Dispilio tablet, and it is Linear B, a Greek syllabic writing system, which has the most similarities with that example. For this reason, I propose comparisons between Linear B and Byblos script will be the most fruitful approach towards decipherment.
