Brian E. Colless
New Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats the Byblos signs as a West Semitic logo-syllabary used across the Levant, and argues that the proto-alphabet was a simplification of it.
The Byblos syllabaryBrian E. Colless is new Zealand epigrapher, Massey University; advocate of the Canaanite syllabary reading of the Byblos script, and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as new Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats the Byblos signs as a West Semitic logo-syllabary used across the Levant, and argues that the proto-alphabet was a simplification of it.
Two questions rest in part on what Colless did or said, among them “Where did the Byblos signs come from, and is the script related to the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets?”, which stands open: 2 answers, none ahead.
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Brian E. Colless [Person FIG0DEDHYN4HATX]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDHYN4HATX
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