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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 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 ...
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 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 .
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.
[7] The words that show s 2 are predominantly borrowings, and thus it is often thought to be a late addition to the alphabet representing a foreign sound that could be approximated by native /s/; Huehnergard and Pardee make it the affricate /ts/. [ 8 ]
[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 ...