Byblos Script

Script Details

Byblos Script

An inscription of the Byblos syllabary

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Data

Alternate Names Proto-Byblian, Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblic, Byblic
ISO 15924 None
Type Syllabary
Family Middle Eastern
Direction RtL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used Unknown
Glyphs 90-11
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location Byblos, Lebanon
Earliest Date approx 1800 BCE
Latest Date approx 1400 BCE
Ancestry
    • Byblos Script

Overview

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. They were excavated by Maurice Dunand, from 1928 to 1932, and published in 1945 in his monograph Byblia Grammata. The inscriptions are conventionally dated to the second millennium BC, probably between the 18th and 15th centuries BC.

Examples of the script have also been discovered in Egypt, Italy, and Megiddo (Garbini, Colless). - Wikipedia

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Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 34-58 Blackwell Publishing
Hoch, James E 1995 Egyptian Hieratic Writing in the Byblos Pseudo-hieroglyphic Stele L, Vol 32 (1995), p. 59-65 Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
Mendenhall, George E. 1978 On the History of Writing, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), p. 134-135 The Biblical Archaeologist