Five inscriptions from Byblos written in an early type of Phoenician script
Yehimilk inscription
TheByblian royal inscriptions are five inscriptions fromByblos written in an early type ofPhoenician script, in the order of some of thekings of Byblos, all of which were discovered in the early 20th century.
They constitute the largest corpus of lengthy Phoenician inscriptions from the area of the "Phoenician homeland"; it is the only major site in the region which has been excavated to pre-Hellenistic levels.[1]
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: 1946]): 231–247.
William F. Albright, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153–154.
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