Event · Byblos syllabary

Benjamin Sass argues for a ninth-century date; Michael Mäder presents the first computational word-boundary analysis

Sass's chapter redates the inscriptions to about 900 to 830 BC from their affinities with early Byblian alphabetic texts; at the Berner Altorientalisches Forum in June 2019 Mäder presented the Unicode-transcribed corpus and its sequence analysis, published 2022.

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Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

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The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions

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Michael Mäder

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The Byblos syllabary

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Benjamin Sass argues for a ninth-century date; Michael Mäder presents the first computational word-boundary analysis [Event EVT0DEDMVSTE58R]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DEDMVSTE58R

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Event, catalog key EVT0DEDMVSTE58R},
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