# Jan Best 2008: Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script

> Jan Best, 2008. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Ugarit-Forschungen 40: 129-133 (with the companion paper "Suruya in the Byblos Script Corpus"…

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# Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script

Jan Best, 2008.

**Byblos syllabary** Article0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Jan Best reads tablets c and d as a Semitic temple dedication to the sun god Shuraya](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMVDB984T/jan-best-reads-tablets-c-and-d-as-a-semitic-temple)

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[Jan Best](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDJ7FPN0K6/jan-best)

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[The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)

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## Cite it

```
Jan Best (2008). Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script. http://jangpbest.nl/
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[Find it at jangpbest.nl](http://jangpbest.nl/)

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