Cretan

Script Details

Cretan

Cretan hieroglyphs on a clay bar

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Maps

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan_hieroglyphs

Data

Alternate Names Cretan hieroglyphs
ISO 15924 None
Type Undeciphered, (Presumed To Be Ideographic, Possibly With A Syllabic Component)
Family European
Direction Unknown
Glyphs 90
Earliest Location Crete
Earliest Date ~2100 BCE
Latest Date ~1600 BCE
Ancestry
    • Cretan

Overview

This script has not yet been deciphered and is not currently slated to be put on the Unicode Roadmap to SMP. We will revisit this article as new developments occur.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 59-109 Blackwell Publishing