Byblos syllabary
Bronze Age pictographic script from Byblos / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the pseudo-hieroglyphic script. For the Phoenician inscriptions from Byblos, see Old Byblian.
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.
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Byblos script | |
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Script type | Undeciphered
(probably a syllabary or abugida) |
Time period | Estimated between 1800 BC and 1400 BC |
Languages | Unknown |
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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Examples of the script have also been discovered in Egypt, Italy, and Megiddo (Garbini, Colless).