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.
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
Unicode Chart
Maps
Https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Cpmn
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
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 |
|
Overview
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 |