# Benjamin Sass 2019: The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions

> Benjamin Sass, 2019. 12 records on Mysteries Department cite it. In P. Abrahami and L. Battini (eds), Cultures et sociétés syro-mésopotamiennes: Mélanges…

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# The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions

Benjamin Sass, 2019.

**Byblos syllabary** Chapter0

## What it's used for here

In P. Abrahami and L. Battini (eds), Cultures et sociétés syro-mésopotamiennes: Mélanges offerts à Olivier Rouault, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 157-180. Argues that no inscription has a secure context and that affinities with ninth-century Byblian alphabetic inscriptions point to an Iron Age date (c. 900-830 BC) rather than the Middle Bronze Age.

## Cited by on this site 12 records

[The inscribed bronze spatulas (Dunand inscriptions b, e, f, i)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN8TSTWE2/the-inscribed-bronze-spatulas-dunand-inscriptions-b-e-f-i)

ART

[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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EVD

[None of the 13 to 16 inscribed objects has a secure stratigraphic context, so the Middle Bronze Age date rests on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVKZNT733/none-of-the-13-to-16-inscribed-objects-has-a-secure)

Evidence

EVD

[The Byblos inscriptions have no secure archaeological date and may be Iron Age, eight alphabetic letters have no…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEAWATAYJG/the-byblos-inscriptions-have-no-secure-archaeological-date)

Evidence

EVD

[The inscriptions share word dividers, framing and some sign forms with ninth-century Byblian Phoenician inscriptions…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTKCJPF5X/the-inscriptions-share-word-dividers-framing-and-some-sign)

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

[The pseudo-hieroglyphic objects share the spatula medium, word dividers, text framing and some sign forms with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMHTSEDW/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-objects-share-the-spatula-medium)

Evidence

EVD

[Benjamin Sass argues for a ninth-century date; Michael Mäder presents the first computational word-boundary analysis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMVSTE58R/benjamin-sass-argues-for-a-ninth-century-date-michael-mader)

EVT

[The inscriptions are made, on Dunand's dating to the nineteenth to eighteenth centuries BC](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMA2ARTBX/the-inscriptions-are-made-on-dunands-dating-to-the)

EVT

[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)

The mystery article

MYS

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

The mystery article

MYS

[When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written)

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## Cite it

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Benjamin Sass (2019). The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions. https://www.academia.edu/38559714
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