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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.
Seals showing Indus script, an ancient undeciphered writing system Page 32 of the Voynich manuscript, a medieval manuscript written with an undeciphered writing system. Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist.
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 script may refer to: Byblos syllabary (c. 1700 BC) Phoenician script (c. 1200 BC) This page was last edited on 15 February 2019, at 11:30 (UTC). Text is ...
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 .
Hieratic (/ h aɪ ə ˈ r æ t ɪ k /; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE.
Byblos syllabary – the city of Byblos; Cretan hieroglyphs; Indus – Indus Valley civilization; Isthmian (apparently logosyllabic) Linear A (a syllabary) – Minoan; Lukasa – Kingdom of Luba (a memory device) Mixtec – Mixtec (perhaps pictographic) Neolithic signs in China, including: Banpo symbols – Yangshao culture (perhaps proto-writing)
[3] [7] The Ahiram epitaph, whose dating is controversial, engraved on the sarcophagus of king Ahiram in Byblos, Lebanon, one of five known Byblian royal inscriptions, shows essentially the fully developed Phoenician script, [8] [dubious – discuss] although the name "Phoenician" is by convention given to inscriptions beginning in the mid-11th ...