# Michael Mäder 2022: Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

> Michael Mäder, 2022. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum 4 (2019 conference…

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# Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary

Michael Mäder, 2022.

**Byblos syllabary** ArticleCopy of **[Bronze tablet d (Dunand inscription d)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN81KX7EH/bronze-tablet-d-dunand-inscription-d)** doi: **[10.22012/baf.2019.03](https://doi.org/10.22012/baf.2019.03)** 0

## What it's used for here

BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum 4 (2019 conference, published 2022), CC BY 4.0. The first computational treatment: the corpus (15 inscriptions plus 28 tentatively assigned fragments) transcribed with one Unicode private-use character per sign variant and run through a sequence-analysis tool to find morphemes and word boundaries; the largest text has 461 discernible signs.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

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

ART

[Bronze tablet d: Unicode transcription in the GEAS Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/copies/CPY0DEDQF8VJ73W/bronze-tablet-d-unicode-transcription-in-the-geas-online)

CPY

[Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions (OCBI), GEAS Unicode transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPZFC4AWM/online-corpus-of-byblos-inscriptions-ocbi-geas-unicode)

Dataset

DAT

[Sequence analysis of the Unicode-transcribed corpus recovers morphemes and word boundaries without sound values…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV51A295T/sequence-analysis-of-the-unicode-transcribed-corpus-recovers)

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)

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[Michael Mäder](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDJ9NQW40S/michael-mader)

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

The mystery article

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## Cite it

```
Michael Mäder (2022). Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary. https://doi.org/10.22012/baf.2019.03
```

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