Evidence · Byblos syllabary

A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the…

A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the fourteenth century BC, five centuries before Sass's date.

Suggestive0

What it means

Key questionWhen were the Byblos inscriptions written?

3 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onIron Age, c. 900-830 BC (Sass)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

Still possibleunchanged

Next steps 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?

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

Sources 2

Byblos: first sound value proposal based on external evidence (GEAS news, 1 July 2023)

Mäder 2023

SRC

The Byblos Script

Vita 2018

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the… [Evidence EVD0DEDVMVP13GW]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDVMVP13GW

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  year      = {2026},
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