# Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC…

> Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC date, which Posener's…

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# Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC…

Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC date, which Posener's nineteenth-century terminus and the handbooks follow.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written)

3 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Middle Bronze Age, c. 1900-1600 BC (Dunand)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT09DQ846/middle-bronze-age-c-1900-1600-bc-dunand)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

1

Read Sass 2019 in full and tabulate, object by object, what Dunand recorded of each find context in Byblia Grammata and the 1978 note, to see which if any has a usable stratigraphic association.

~6 h

[On: When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written)

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 3

[Byblos (Pseudo-hieroglyphic) - Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH5FYW6VK/byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-mnamon-ancient-writing-systems-in)

Merlo 2022

SRC

[Nouvelles inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques découvertes à Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFA5TC4KT/nouvelles-inscriptions-pseudo-hieroglyphiques-decouvertes-a)

Dunand 1978

SRC

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

Vita 2018

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC… [Evidence EVD0DEDVKMSHWNN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDVKMSHWNN
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