pseudo-hieroglyphic

pseudo-hieroglyphic
/sooh'doh huy'euhr euh glif"ik, -huy'reuh-/, adj.
noting or pertaining to a script dating from the second millennium B.C. that appears to be syllabic and to represent the Phoenician language and that is inscribed on objects found at Byblos.

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