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Event · Byblos syllabary

The inscriptions are made, on Dunand's dating to the nineteenth to eighteenth centuries BC

Dunand placed the pseudo-hieroglyphic texts in the Middle Bronze Age from their find context and the hieratic look of the signs; Mendenhall and Sass have argued for dates about 500 years earlier and 900 years later.

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