# Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first…

> Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first attestation of the Brahmi script…

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# Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first…

Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first attestation of the Brahmi script, so Brahmi letter values cannot have been the model.

Established0

## 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[The Byblos inscriptions record Sanskrit, written with signs whose values are those of the Brahmi letters they resemble.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDSH1KX1WA/the-byblos-inscriptions-record-sanskrit-written-with-signs)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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 3

[Indo-European origin of alphabetic systems and deciphering of the Byblos script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH4DKH1BK/indo-european-origin-of-alphabetic-systems-and-deciphering)

Rassokha 2017

SRC

[The Byblos Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEMHG9CB/the-byblos-script)

Vita 2018

SRC

[The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEWRK5S4/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions-from-byblos-their)

Sass 2019

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first… [Evidence EVD0DEDV4KG6RGK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDV4KG6RGK
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**EVD** 0DEDV4KG6RGK

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/sessions/SES0DEDWWFFGTGW/session-1-the-byblos-syllabary-seeded-corpus-readings-and) · 31 Oct 2026

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