# Édouard Dhorme · Person

> French Assyriologist and Semitist (1881 to 1966), one of the decipherers of the Ugaritic alphabet in 1930, who in 1946 announced a Phoenician reading of…

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# Édouard Dhorme

French Assyriologist and Semitist (1881 to 1966), one of the decipherers of the Ugaritic alphabet in 1930, who in 1946 announced a Phoenician reading of the Byblos inscriptions that was not accepted. **1881–1966.**

[The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)[1 event][1 source]

Édouard Dhorme is french Semitist and Assyriologist, co-decipherer of Ugaritic, author of the first Byblos decipherment claim (1881–1966), and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as french Assyriologist and Semitist (1881 to 1966), one of the decipherers of the Ugaritic alphabet in 1930, who in 1946 announced a Phoenician reading of the Byblos inscriptions that was not accepted.

One event on the site involves Dhorme: Édouard Dhorme announces a Phoenician decipherment starting from a supposed date formula (1946).

One question rest in part on what Dhorme did or said, among them “What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?”, which stands open: 6 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**The Byblos syllabary**

1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)

[What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions)Open: 6 answers, none ahead

## What Édouard Dhorme did 1

1946[Édouard Dhorme announces a Phoenician decipherment starting from a supposed date formula](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMB467YCV/edouard-dhorme-announces-a-phoenician-decipherment-starting)

## Sources 1

[Déchiffrement des inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques de Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFAASG0X6/dechiffrement-des-inscriptions-pseudo-hieroglyphiques-de)

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1881

Died

1966

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Semitist, decipherer

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French Semitist and Assyriologist, co-decipherer of Ugaritic, author of the first Byblos decipherment claim

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