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
StatusExtinct
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesUnknown; 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, they are undeciphered.[2]

  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