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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.
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. They were published in Maurice Dunand 's Fouilles de Byblos (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1125 and 2334, plate XXXII).
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)
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The correct reading direction for Byblos script is left to right, and the language encoded is Greek or Italo-Celtic (Rhaetic, on the bronze tablets). To see examples of deciphered texts, go to Quora and do a search on Byblos script.76.191.150.36 23:13, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Maurice Dunand (4 March 1898 – 23 March 1987) was a prominent French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East, who served as director of the Mission Archéologique Française in Lebanon. Dunand excavated Byblos from 1924 to 1975, [ 1 ] and published a Byblos syllabary in his monograph Byblia Grammata in 1945.
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