# 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…

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# 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.

Suggestive0

## 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[None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDSHY4A7SR/none-of-these)

Bears onnone for, none 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 2

[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

[Egyptian Hieratic Writing in the Byblos Pseudo-hieroglyphic Stele L](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFVTR04AS/egyptian-hieratic-writing-in-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic)

Hoch 1995

SRC

## Cite it

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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
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**EVD** 0DEDV58K18RS

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Evidence

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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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