# Juan-Pablo Vita 2018: The Byblos Script

> Juan-Pablo Vita, José Ángel Zamora, 2018. 16 records on Mysteries Department cite it. In S. Ferrara and M. Valério (eds), Paths into Script Formation in…

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# The Byblos Script

Juan-Pablo Vita, José Ángel Zamora, 2018.

**Byblos syllabary** Chapter0

## What it's used for here

In S. Ferrara and M. Valério (eds), Paths into Script Formation in the Ancient Mediterranean, Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici NS Supplemento 1, Rome: Quasar, pp. 75-102. The current scholarly overview: corpus, sign counts per text (c: 225 signs, 46+3 distinct; d: 457, 65+3; a: 123, 34+3), dating, structure and a verdict that the script remains undeciphered.

## Cited by on this site 16 records

[Bronze tablet c (Dunand inscription c)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN8G01RJ2/bronze-tablet-c-dunand-inscription-c)

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[Bronze tablet d (Dunand inscription d)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN81KX7EH/bronze-tablet-d-dunand-inscription-d)

ART

[A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMVP13GW/a-cylinder-seal-reported-to-name-akhenatens-daughters-in)

Evidence

EVD

[Best himself rejected Woudhuizen's revision of the reading, and Vita and Zamora judge Woudhuizen's correspondences…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4CMT8KV/best-himself-rejected-woudhuizens-revision-of-the-reading)

Evidence

EVD

[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

[Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVKMSHWNN/dunands-excavation-context-and-the-hieratic-character-of-the)

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EVD

[Eight of the twelve most frequent Byblos sign types lie within a small graphical distance of an Egyptian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVN022MA5/eight-of-the-twelve-most-frequent-byblos-sign-types-lie)

Evidence

EVD

[Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4KG6RGK/every-proposed-date-for-the-byblos-inscriptions-from-about)

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[Garbini's review found Mendenhall's translations cryptic and his method unconstrained, and the reading was set aside…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTP40P1F4/garbinis-review-found-mendenhalls-translations-cryptic-and)

Evidence

EVD

[The current specialist overviews conclude that the script remains undeciphered and that no proposal since 1946 has…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4SM9H2R/the-current-specialist-overviews-conclude-that-the-script)

Evidence

EVD

[The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVN83FCDR/the-intermediates-between-the-byblos-syllabary-and-the)

Evidence

EVD

[Vita and Zamora present the script as one of several local Syro-Palestinian writing experiments existing alongside or…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVNFGQXRK/vita-and-zamora-present-the-script-as-one-of-several-local)

Evidence

EVD

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

The mystery article

MYS

[Byblos (Jbeil)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDHMPQSAM4/byblos-jbeil)

PLC

[How many distinct signs does the script have, and how is it structured?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ8C80YA/how-many-distinct-signs-does-the-script-have-and-how-is-it)

Question

QST

[What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions)

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## Cite it

```
Juan-Pablo Vita, & José Ángel Zamora (2018). The Byblos Script. https://www.academia.edu/37706221/The_Byblos_Script
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