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Cretan hieroglyphs
Undecyphered bronze-age Cretan writing system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history.[1] As of 2024[update], they are undeciphered.
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Cretan hieroglyphs | |
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![]() A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, 1800 BC | |
Script type | Undeciphered
(presumed ideographic, possibly with a syllabic component) |
Time period | MM I to MM III 2100–1700 BC |
Status | Extinct |
Direction | Left-to-right ![]() |
Languages | Unknown; possibly "Minoan" |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Proto-writing
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Sister systems | Linear A |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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