Cypro-Minoan syllabary
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| Cypro-Minoan | ||
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| Type: | Syllabary | |
| Languages: | Eteocypriot? | |
| Time period: | 15th to 12th centuries BC | |
| Parent writing systems: | Linear A Cypro-Minoan |
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| Child writing systems: | Cypriot syllabary | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary, also known as CM I or Linear C is the Late Bronze Age syllabary used on Minoan Cyprus (in use roughly from the 15th to the 12th centuries BC). It is closely related to Linear A, the script used in Minoan Crete, and it evolved into the Iron Age Cypriot syllabary from ca. the 11th century BC (the Greek Dark Ages).
The inscription corpus may be divided into
- economic texts
- tablet Enkomi 1955
- Enkomi clay cylinder inv. nr. 19.10, 14th c.
- clay cylinder seals found in Kalavassos (Agios Dimitrios), in particular K-AD 389, 13th c.
- votive inscriptions
- ivories from a temple treasury at Kition
- bronze miniature ingots and other bronze objects from Enkomi
- a vessel from a sanctuary at Pigades
- short legends on clay balls from Enkomi and Kition
The longest known text is that of the Enkomi clay cylinder, discovered in 1967, with some 160 signs on 27 lines.
[edit] References
- Woudhuizen Fred, The Language of the Sea People, Amsterdam (1992), ISBN 90-73835-02-X, 81-153.
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