What it's used for here
Beirut: American University of Beirut, 179 pp. (reissued Syracuse University Press 1986). The fullest decipherment claim: 26 consonant signs and 63 consonant-vowel signs writing an archaic West Semitic language dated c. 2400 BC or later; translations of eight of the nine texts then known.
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The Byblos syllabary
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George E. Mendenhall (1985). The Syllabic Inscriptions from Byblos. https://press.aub.edu.lb/the-syllabic-inscriptions-from-byblos
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