# Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC.

> Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVM9V3QNK/hoch-finds-the-closest-egyptian-parallels-for-the-byblos  
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# Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC.

Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC.

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## 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[Early Bronze Age, c. 2400 BC or earlier (Mendenhall, Hoch)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0M1GCMG/early-bronze-age-c-2400-bc-or-earlier-mendenhall-hoch)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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 2

[The Byblos Syllabary: Bridging the Gap Between Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Semitic Alphabets](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFVFAGQQQ/the-byblos-syllabary-bridging-the-gap-between-egyptian)

Hoch 1990

SRC

[The Syllabic Inscriptions from Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFKRMY1H4/the-syllabic-inscriptions-from-byblos)

Mendenhall 1985

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC. [Evidence EVD0DEDVM9V3QNK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDVM9V3QNK
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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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