# Brian E. Colless 1998: The Canaanite Syllabary > Brian E. Colless, 1998. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Abr-Nahrain (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) 35: 26-46. Lists the inscriptions Colless… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFWHG6P2W/the-canaanite-syllabary Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)Brian E. Colless 1998 **0** # The Canaanite Syllabary Brian E. Colless, 1998. **Byblos syllabary** Article0 ## What it's used for here Abr-Nahrain (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) 35: 26-46. Lists the inscriptions Colless assigns to a West Semitic logo-syllabary (Byblos plus finds from Megiddo, Sinai, Egypt and elsewhere) and gives his sign table with proposed values. URL is the author's blog post summarising the paper. ## Cited by on this site 3 records [Colless reports that 18 of 22 Phoenician letters have a shape ancestor in the syllabary and that his own values…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTQJ3MBDC/colless-reports-that-18-of-22-phoenician-letters-have-a) Evidence EVD [Brian E. Colless](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDHYN4HATX/brian-e-colless) FIG [The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary) The mystery article MYS ## Cite it ``` Brian E. Colless (1998). The Canaanite Syllabary. http://cryptcracker.blogspot.com/2007/03/oldest-west-semitic-inscriptions-these.html ``` [Find it at cryptcracker.blogspot.com](http://cryptcracker.blogspot.com/2007/03/oldest-west-semitic-inscriptions-these.html) Key **SRC** 0DEDFWHG6P2W Kind Journal article Rights The publisher's Kept 31 Oct 2026, for editors Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFWHG6P2W/the-canaanite-syllabary/csl.json)