Byblian royal inscriptions


The Byblian royal inscriptions are five inscriptions from Byblos written in an early type of Phoenician script, 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.

The five royal inscriptions

KAI 2 is the :fr:Graffite du tombeau d'Ahiram|necropolis graffito and KAI 3 is a bronze spatula; neither contain names of royalty or other historical information.

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