# Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to…

> Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to produce the names and posit allographs…

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# Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to…

Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to produce the names and posit allographs only where translations require them.

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## What it means

Key question[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)

6 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Northwest Semitic with Akkadian and Hurrian elements (Best, Woudhuizen)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDS82XZT4Q/northwest-semitic-with-akkadian-and-hurrian-elements-best)

Counts againstnone for, 2 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

Obtain an export of the GEAS Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions (office@geass.ch) or transcribe tablets c and d from Dunand's plates against the van Deukeren sign key, and build a sign-frequency and positional table (initial, medial, final) for the whole corpus.

~12 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

2

Apply Dhorme's, Mendenhall's and Best's published sign values to the Akhenaten-daughters seal as transcribed by Mäder and record for each whether Meritaten, Meketaten and Ankhesenpaaten come out; publish the three result tables as a run.

~8 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

3

Compare the sign-count and repetition statistics of tablets c and d (about 100 signs, 1,046 tokens) with same-length samples of Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Ugaritic syllabic or alphabetic text to test whether a consonant-vowel syllabary with a third of logograms is the best structural match.

~10 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 1

[Die Byblos-Schrift: Beurteilung des Entzifferungsvorschlags von F. Woudhuizen und J. Best anhand der GEAS-Methodologie](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQS0Y0KV/die-byblos-schrift-beurteilung-des-entzifferungsvorschlags)

Schmutz 2024

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to… [Evidence EVD0DEDV4524AXH]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDV4524AXH
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