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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.
The entrances to the Bronze Age necropolis of Byblos is located just outside the southern gate of the ancient acropolis. This area, which provided access to the acropolis, revealed a series of rock-cut tombs extending beneath the walls of the sacred precinct, towards the large temple complexes.
The two inscribed Byblos bronze spatulas The Byblos bronze spatulas are a number bronze spatulas found in Byblos , two of which were inscribed. One contains a Phoenician inscription (known as the Azarba'al Spatula , KAI 3 or TSSI III 1) and one contains an inscription in the Byblos syllabary .
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... move to sidebar hide. Byblos script may refer to: Byblos syllabary (c. 1700 BC) Phoenician script (c. 1200 BC ...
The Safatba'al inscription or the "Shipitbaal inscription" (KAI 7), found in Byblos in 1936, [11] published in 1945. [ 12 ] [ 4 ] Currently in the National Museum of Beirut . KAI 2 is the Byblos Necropolis graffito and KAI 3 are the Byblos bronze spatulas ; neither contain names of royalty or other historical information.
Byblos was crowned as the "Arab Tour Capital" for the year 2016 by the Lebanese minister of tourism in the Grand Serail in Beirut. Byblos was chosen by Condé Nast Traveler as the second best city in the Middle East for 2012, beating Tel Aviv and Dubai, [57] and by the World Tourism Organization as the best Arab tourist city for 2013. [58]
The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE [1] or 1300 BCE [2] for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language. It was discovered in Ugarit, modern Ras Shamra, Syria, in 1928. It has 30 letters.
Drawing of the reverse of an Elagabalus-era coin with a personified depiction of the city of Byblos.Renan used the image as a guide to locate the ancient city. [21]Ancient texts and manuscripts hinted at the location of Gebal, which was lost to history until its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century.