Byblos syllabaryEvidence
Evidence · Byblos syllabary
Egyptian hieratic was written on at least one Byblos stone fragment, and Hurrian has never been tested as the…
Egyptian hieratic was written on at least one Byblos stone fragment, and Hurrian has never been tested as the language, so candidates beyond Semitic remain open.
What it means
Key questionWhat language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?
6 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
Next steps 3
1
Obtain an export of the GEAS Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions ([email protected]) 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
—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
—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
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 2
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Egyptian hieratic was written on at least one Byblos stone fragment, and Hurrian has never been tested as the… [Evidence EVD0DEDV58K18RS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDV58K18RS
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dedv58k18rs,
title = {Egyptian hieratic was written on at least one Byblos stone fragment, and Hurrian has never been tested as the…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDV58K18RS},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDV58K18RS}
}