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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1974181, member: 56859&quot;]Thanks everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend translation is starting to make some sense.&nbsp; The second letter is supposedly a Z or Z equivalent.&nbsp; The language doesn&#039;t have written vowels.&nbsp; That &quot;o&quot; is a glottal stop, something very, er, <i>foreign</i> to an English-speaker.&nbsp; How do you<i> begin</i> a word with a glottal stop?</p><p><br /></p><p>The king&#039;s name has a variety of English spellings and now I understand why.&nbsp; We&#039;re filling in the blanks.&nbsp; I&#039;d also failed to use the Phoenician name of Byblos (Gebal) in my translation attempts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend, as represented by letters from our modern Latin alphabet, is:</p><p><br /></p><p>O Z B O L&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; M L W(or K?)&nbsp; &nbsp; G B L</p><p><br /></p><p>The glottal consonant is written with an apostrophe, although a quick Googling shows a different symbol, a dotless question mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;zb&#039;l = Ozbaal, Azbaal, Uzbaal... take your pick.&nbsp; Same guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>gbl = Gebal, the Latinization of the Phoenician name for Byblos.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for MLW meaning king or ruler... okay.&nbsp; If they say so <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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