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Cypriot syllabary. The Cypriot syllabary was used in Cyprus from about 1500 and 300 BC and is thought to have developed from the Linear A. The earliest known inscriptions from between 1500 and 1200 BC are in an unknown language called 'Eteo-Cypriot', or 'True Cypriot', and the script in which they are written is called Cypro-Minoan.
The classical Cypriot syllabary is apparently a late development of the still undeciphered Cypro-Minoan script (containing 63 syllabic symbols), which was found on a number of clay tablets from Cyprus and Syria and dates from about 1500 to about 1100 bc. The Cypro-Minoan script in turn is thought to be a distant offshoot of the early Cretan ...
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM) is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). The term "Cypro-Minoan" was coined by Arthur Evans in 1909 based on its visual similarity to Linear A on Minoan Crete, from which CM is thought to be derived.
A (A) and Cypro-Minoan (CM) forms are added on the left. page 8 1.2 The second-millennium bc Cypriot syllabaries (CM 1,CM2,CM3) compared with Linear A (A) at left and the first-millennium Cypriot syllabaries (CC) at right. 10 1.3 o-pe-le-ta-u = Ophéltau. 18 1.4 Eighth-century Cypriot inscriptions. 22
Feb 4, 2013 · Here the corpus under investigation is defined as a collection of 243 inscriptions (fully enumerated in Appendix 1), following the conventional classification schemes of three different Cypro-Minoan scripts: CM1, CM2, and CM3, as devised by Masson and followed in Olivier’s edition of the inscriptions Édition holistique des textes Chypro ...
Jan 24, 2015 · Of 2014 publications one could now add Duhoux’s succinct entries on “Cypro-Minoan syllabary” and “Eteocypriot” ( Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by G.K. Giannakis, volume 1, Leiden 2014, pp.408-409, 571-572). 9.
Cypriot syllabary. …development of the still undeciphered Cypro-Minoan script (containing 63 syllabic symbols), which was found on a number of clay tablets from Cyprus and Syria and dates from about 1500 to about 1100 bc. The Cypro-Minoan script in turn is thought to be a distant offshoot of the early Cretan scripts….
