# Paolo Merlo 2022: Byblos (Pseudo-hieroglyphic) - Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean

> Paolo Merlo, 2022. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa's Mnamon entry (updated March 2022): corpus list, sign…

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# Byblos (Pseudo-hieroglyphic) - Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean

Paolo Merlo, 2022.

**Byblos syllabary** Webpage0

## What it's used for here

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa's Mnamon entry (updated March 2022): corpus list, sign counts (74 distinct on the two tablets, 30 more elsewhere), direction, dating proposals, decipherment attempts and bibliography.

## Cited by on this site 9 records

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

ART

[Mnamon: Byblos (pseudo-hieroglyphic) sign list, photo gallery and bibliography](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDQ1AVBRRY/mnamon-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-sign-list-photo-gallery)

Dataset

DAT

[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

[Dhorme's values for about 75 signs did not yield coherent Phoenician texts beyond the starting formula, and no…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTK1261EK/dhormes-values-for-about-75-signs-did-not-yield-coherent)

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)

Evidence

EVD

[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

[Maurice Dunand finds the bronze tablets, spatulas and stone fragments in the temple area of Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMABNSCBR/maurice-dunand-finds-the-bronze-tablets-spatulas-and-stone)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Paolo Merlo (2022). Byblos (Pseudo-hieroglyphic) - Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean. https://mnamon.sns.it/index.php?page=Scrittura&id=3&lang=en
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[Find it at mnamon.sns.it](https://mnamon.sns.it/index.php?page=Scrittura&id=3&lang=en)

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**SRC** 0DEDH5FYW6VK

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