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Idalion bilingual

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MYS0DEDWA0EQ633 · mystery · click to copyMEteocretan and EteocypriotWebpageCopy of The Idalion bilingual (British Museum 125320)0

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Tertiary: the Phoenician and Cypriot syllabic (Greek) dedication of 388 BC found by R. H. Lang at Dali in 1869, British Museum 125320, which George Smith used in 1871 to decipher the Cypriot syllabary ("On the reading of the Cypriote inscriptions", Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 1, 1872), with Birch, Brandis, Schmidt, Deecke, Siegismund and Ahrens completing the work by 1876. Used for the decipherment history.

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Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Idalion bilingual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idalion_bilingual
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