Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs
Cretan hieroglyphs;
	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 Cretan hieroglyphs;
Sister systems	Linear A
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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.^[2]

^ Yule (1981), pp. 170–171.
^ [1]Civitillo, Matilde, Silvia Ferrara, and Torsten Meissner, Introduction", in The Earliest Script on Crete: Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography, Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-12, 2024

[FOOTNOTEYule1981170–171-1] Yule (1981), pp. 170–171.

[2] [1]Civitillo, Matilde, Silvia Ferrara, and Torsten Meissner, Introduction", in The Earliest Script on Crete: Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography, Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-12, 2024

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Cretan hieroglyphs

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