Byblos clay cone inscriptions

Byblos clay cone inscriptions
MaterialClay
Createdc. 1050 BC
Discoveredc. 1950
Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Present locationBeirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon


The Byblos clay cones inscriptions are Phoenician inscriptions (TSSI III 2,3) on two clay cones discovered around 1950.

They were first published in Maurice Dunand's Fouilles de Byblos (volume II, 1954), but it was only twenty years later that their extremely old age was fully realized: they are now dated to the eleventh century BCE.

They are currently at the National Museum of Beirut.