# Northwest Semitic with Akkadian and Hurrian elements (Best, Woudhuizen)

> Still possible: The Byblos tablets record a Northwest Semitic text with Akkadian and Hurrian loanwords, a temple dedication to the sun god Shuraya, read…

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# Northwest Semitic with Akkadian and Hurrian elements (Best, Woudhuizen)

The Byblos tablets record a Northwest Semitic text with Akkadian and Hurrian loanwords, a temple dedication to the sun god Shuraya, read through sign parallels with Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** None pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Best's values read the names on the Akhenaten-daughters seal.
- The Hurrian and Akkadian words identified recur across the spatulas and stone fragments in plausible positions.
- The four punctuation signs behave as dividers in every text, not only on the tablets.

## What would rule it out

- Failure on the seal bilingual, which Schmutz and Mäder report.
- A logogram share far below the roughly one third implied by the phonetisation degree, which they also report.
- The punctuation sign occurring mid-word in the sequence data.

## Evidence none for · 2 against

[Best himself rejected Woudhuizen's revision of the reading, and Vita and Zamora judge Woudhuizen's correspondences…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4CMT8KV/best-himself-rejected-woudhuizens-revision-of-the-reading)

Suggestive

AGAINST

[Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4524AXH/tested-against-the-akhenaten-daughters-seal-and-a)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions)

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