# 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…

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# 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 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[Iron Age, c. 900-830 BC (Sass)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0Q4XR3A/iron-age-c-900-830-bc-sass)

Counts against1 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 2

[Byblos: first sound value proposal based on external evidence (GEAS news, 1 July 2023)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGR7ECH4T/byblos-first-sound-value-proposal-based-on-external-evidence)

Mäder 2023

SRC

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

Vita 2018

SRC

## Cite it

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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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Key

**EVD** 0DEDVMVP13GW

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Evidence

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Suggestive

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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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