Cypro-Minoan

Script Details

Cypro-Minoan

A bronze Idalion Tablet from the 5th c. BCE

By O. Masson / Schreiber - Olivier Masson: Les Inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques. Recueil critique et commenté (Études Chypriotes I) Boccard, Paris 1961, Plate XXXVI,1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1640687By O. Masson / Schreiber - Olivier Masson: Les Inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques. Recueil critique et commenté (Études Chypriotes I) Boccard, Paris 1961, Plate XXXVI,1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1640687

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Data

ISO 15924 Cpmn 402
Type Syllabic
Family European
Direction Unknown (possibly) boustrophedon
Diacritics Unknown
Contextual Forms Unknown
Capitals Used Unknown
Glyphs 45
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location Enkomi
Earliest Date 1550 BCE
Latest Date 1050 BCE
Ancestry
  • Linear A
    • Cypro-Minoan

Overview

This script has not yet been deciphered, but has been the subject of many scholars' study since the early 20th century. There appear to be a variety of languages that were written using this script, however, we are unable to read the other languages because the script is undeciphered.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Bennett, Emmett 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Aegean Scripts, 125-133 Oxford University Press
Steele, Philippa M. 2013 Cypro-Minoan; A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: the Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC, p. 9-97 Cambridge University Press
Woodard, Roger 2008 The Ancient Languages of Europe, Greek Dialects, 50-72 Cambridge University Press