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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 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.
Christopher Rollston, "The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass." MAARAV 15 (2008): 57–93.; Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 [original publication: 1946]): 231–247.
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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, [56] and by the World Tourism Organization as the best Arab tourist city for 2013. [57]
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)
Main menu. move to sidebar hide. Navigation Main page; Contents; ... There may also have been a degree of influence from the poorly understood Byblos syllabary. [12]