# The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is…

> The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is attested from about 1900 BC with…

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# The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is…

The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is attested from about 1900 BC with its own acrophonic derivation from Egyptian.

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## What it means

Key question[Where did the Byblos signs come from, and is the script related to the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQBGYEW6/where-did-the-byblos-signs-come-from-and-is-the-script)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Egyptian-derived syllabary, ancestor of the alphabet (Hoch, Colless)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0YB9TS7/egyptian-derived-syllabary-ancestor-of-the-alphabet-hoch)

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**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 3

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

Vita 2018

SRC

[The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG4C61RR1/the-origin-of-the-alphabet-an-examination-of-the-goldwasser)

Colless 2014

SRC

[The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEWRK5S4/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions-from-byblos-their)

Sass 2019

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is… [Evidence EVD0DEDVN83FCDR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDVN83FCDR
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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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