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Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script

Jan Best, 2008.

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Ugarit-Forschungen 40: 129-133 (with the companion paper "Suruya in the Byblos Script Corpus", UF 40: 135-141). Best's decipherment of tablets c and d through sign comparisons with Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A, read as a Northwest Semitic text with Akkadian and Hurrian elements dedicating a temple to the sun god Shuraya. URL is the author's site.

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Jan Best (2008). Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script. http://jangpbest.nl/
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