Byblian royal inscriptions
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The Byblian royal inscriptions are five inscriptions from Byblos written in a script known as Old Byblian, all of which were discovered in the early 20th century:
- The Abiba’l Inscription, on a statue of Sheshonq I, published in 1903[1]
- The Ahiram Sarcophagus, discovered in 1923, together with two fragments of alabaster vases with the name of Ramesses II[2]
- The Eliba’l Inscription, inscribed on a statue of Osorkon I[3]
- the Yehimilk Inscription published in 1930[4]
- the Shipitbal Inscription published in 1945[5]
Bibliography
- Christopher Rollston, “The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass.” MAARAV 15 (2008): 57-93.
- Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 [original publication: l946]): 231-247.
- William F. Albright, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153-154.
References
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- ↑ René Dussaud, Les inscriptions phéniciennes du tombeau d’Ahiram, roi de Byblos, Syria 5 (1924): 135-157.
- ↑ René Dussaud, Dédicace dune stame d’Osorkon Ier par Elibaal, roi de Byblos, Syria 6 (1925): 101-117.
- ↑ Maurice Dunand, Nouvelle Inscription Phénicienne Archaique, RB 39 (1930): 321-331.
- ↑ Maurice Dunand, Biblia Grammata: Documents et Recherches sur le Dévelopment de L'écriture en Phénicie (Beyrouth: Direction des Antiquité, 1945): 146-151.
