The date remains the subject of controversy, according to Glenn E. Markoe, "The Emergence of Phoenician Art" Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 279 (August 1990):13-26) p. 13. "Most scholars have taken the Ahiram inscription to date from around 1000 B.C.E.", notes Edward M. Cook, "On the Linguistic Dating of the Phoenician Ahiram Inscription (KAI 1)", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53.1 (January 1994:33-36) p. 33 JSTOR. Cook analyses and dismisses the date in the thirteenth century adopted by C. Garbini, "Sulla datazione della'inscrizione di Ahiram", Annali (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) 37 (1977:81-89), which was the prime source for early dating urged in Bernal, Martin (1990). Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and further West before 1400 BC. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns. ISBN0-931464-47-1. Arguments for a mid 9th -8th century B.C.E. date for the sarcophagus reliefs themselves—and hence the inscription, too— were made on the basis of comparative art history and archaeology by Edith Porada, "Notes on the Sarcophagus
of Ahiram," Journal of the Ancient Near East Society 5 (1973:354-72); and on the basis of paleography among other points by Ronald Wallenfels, "Redating the Byblian Inscriptions," Journal of the Ancient Near East Society 15 (1983:79-118).
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Torrey, Charles C. (1925). «The Ahiram Inscription of Byblos». Journal of the American Oriental Society (Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 45) 45: 269-279. JSTOR593505. doi:10.2307/593505.
Markoe, Glenn E. (1990). «The Emergence of Phoenician Art». Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research279 (279): 13-26. JSTOR1357205. doi:10.2307/1357205. [pp. 13, 19-22]
Vance, Donald R. (1994). «Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria: The Phœnician Inscriptions». The Biblical Archaeologist (The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 57, No. 1) 57 (1): 2-19. JSTOR3210392. doi:10.2307/3210392.
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The date remains the subject of controversy, according to Glenn E. Markoe, "The Emergence of Phoenician Art" Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 279 (August 1990):13-26) p. 13. "Most scholars have taken the Ahiram inscription to date from around 1000 B.C.E.", notes Edward M. Cook, "On the Linguistic Dating of the Phoenician Ahiram Inscription (KAI 1)", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53.1 (January 1994:33-36) p. 33 JSTOR. Cook analyses and dismisses the date in the thirteenth century adopted by C. Garbini, "Sulla datazione della'inscrizione di Ahiram", Annali (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) 37 (1977:81-89), which was the prime source for early dating urged in Bernal, Martin (1990). Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and further West before 1400 BC. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns. ISBN0-931464-47-1. Arguments for a mid 9th -8th century B.C.E. date for the sarcophagus reliefs themselves—and hence the inscription, too— were made on the basis of comparative art history and archaeology by Edith Porada, "Notes on the Sarcophagus
of Ahiram," Journal of the Ancient Near East Society 5 (1973:354-72); and on the basis of paleography among other points by Ronald Wallenfels, "Redating the Byblian Inscriptions," Journal of the Ancient Near East Society 15 (1983:79-118).
Torrey, Charles C. (1925). «The Ahiram Inscription of Byblos». Journal of the American Oriental Society (Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 45) 45: 269-279. JSTOR593505. doi:10.2307/593505.
Markoe, Glenn E. (1990). «The Emergence of Phoenician Art». Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research279 (279): 13-26. JSTOR1357205. doi:10.2307/1357205. [pp. 13, 19-22]
Vance, Donald R. (1994). «Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria: The Phœnician Inscriptions». The Biblical Archaeologist (The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 57, No. 1) 57 (1): 2-19. JSTOR3210392. doi:10.2307/3210392.
