# Iron Age, c. 900-830 BC (Sass)

> Still possible: The inscriptions date to the Iron Age, about 900 to 830 BC, and were a short-lived prestige script replaced by the monumental Byblian…

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# Iron Age, c. 900-830 BC (Sass)

The inscriptions date to the Iron Age, about 900 to 830 BC, and were a short-lived prestige script replaced by the monumental Byblian alphabet.

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

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Alloy analysis groups the bronzes with Iron Age Byblian metalwork.
- The Byblos signs that resemble letters match ninth-century cursive forms specifically, not earlier linear forms.
- No Byblos-script object is ever found in a stratified Bronze Age context.

## What would rule it out

- A stratified Bronze Age find of the script, at Byblos or elsewhere.
- Confirmation that the Akhenaten-daughters seal is in this script, placing it in the fourteenth century BC.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The pseudo-hieroglyphic objects share the spatula medium, word dividers, text framing and some sign forms with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMHTSEDW/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-objects-share-the-spatula-medium)

Suggestive

FOR

[A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMVP13GW/a-cylinder-seal-reported-to-name-akhenatens-daughters-in)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written)

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