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James E. Hoch

Canadian Egyptologist (University of Toronto PhD 1992; University of Alberta) who argued in 1990 that the Byblos signs derive from the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs and in 1995 read four lines of stone fragment l as an Egyptian hieratic date.

James E. Hoch is canadian Egyptologist, University of Alberta; derived the Byblos signs from Egyptian consonant signs, and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as canadian Egyptologist (University of Toronto PhD 1992; University of Alberta) who argued in 1990 that the Byblos signs derive from the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs and in 1995 read four lines of stone fragment l as an Egyptian hieratic date.

One event on the site involves Hoch: James Hoch derives the signs from the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs (1990).

Three questions rest in part on what Hoch did or said, among them “When were the Byblos inscriptions written?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.

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