Byblos bronze spatulas
The Byblos bronze spatulas are a number bronze spatulas found in Byblos, two of which were inscribed. One contains a Phoenician inscription and one contains an inscription in the Byblos syllabary.
They were published in Maurice Dunand's Fouilles de Byblos.
Spatulas
The spatulas discovered in Dunand's Fouilles de Byblos volume I are as follows:Inscribed
- 1125 Large bronze spatula with a short stalk. Phoenician inscription of six lines on one side. On the other side, some chisel test marks. Published separately in 1938 as Spatule de bronze avec épigraphe phénicienne du XIIIe siècle. Text of the inscription:
- 2334. Bronze spatula, similar to no. 1125. Inscribed in the Byblos syllabary. Vertical lines apparently separate the words, as in archaic Phoenician inscriptions.
Uninscribed
- 1345 Small bronze spatula, badly ruined
- 2333 Bronze spatula, similar to no. 1125 but without inscription
- 3227. Narrow triangular spatula, in bronze
- 3313 Bronze spatula, with square stem