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Cretan hieroglyphs, the Glossary

Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era.^[1]

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Undeciphered writing systems

Aegean Islands

The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.

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Agios Vasileios, Laconia

Agios Vasileios (also spelled Ayios Vasileios or Ayios Vasilios; Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος) is the site of a Mycenaean palace, located near the village of Xerokambi in Laconia, Greece.

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Anatolian hieroglyphs

Anatolian hieroglyphs are an indigenous logographic script native to central Anatolia, consisting of some 500 signs.

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Arkalochori Axe

The Arkalochori Axe is a 2nd millennium BC Minoan bronze votive double axe (labrys) excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in 1934 in the Arkalochori cave in Crete, which is believed to have been used for religious rituals.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Cypriot syllabary

The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet.

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Cypro-Minoan syllabary

The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). Cretan hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan syllabary are undeciphered writing systems.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Eteocretan language

Eteocretan (from Eteókrētes, lit. "true Cretans", itself composed from ἐτεός eteós "true" and Κρής Krḗs "Cretan") is the pre-Greek language attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete.

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Geography of Greece

Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek 'idea' + 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language.

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Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.

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Kea (island)

Kea (Κέα), also known as Tzia (Τζιά) and in antiquity Keos (Κέως, Ceos), is a Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea.

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Knossos

Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.

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Kythira

Kythira (Κύθηρα), also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira, is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula.

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Laconia

Laconia or Lakonia (Λακωνία) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.

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Linear A

Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A are undeciphered writing systems.

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Linear B

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language.

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Logogram

In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.

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Malia (archaeological site)

Malia (also Mallia) is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site on the northern coast of Crete in the Heraklion regional unit.

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Milos

Milos or Melos (Mílos,; Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete.

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Minoan chronology

Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Minoan language

The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary.

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Minoan seals

Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization.

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Mycenae

Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.

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Petras

Petras (Πετράς) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan town on northeastern Crete.

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Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC), bearing a text in an unknown script and language.

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Proto-writing

Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information.

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Pylos

Pylos (Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Samothrace

Samothrace (also known as Samothraki; Σαμοθράκη) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea.

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Santorini

Santorini (Santoríni), officially Thira (Thíra) and Classical Greek Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from its mainland.

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Syllabary

In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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Syllabogram

Syllabograms are graphemes used to write the syllables or morae of words.

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Thebes, Greece

Thebes (Θήβα, Thíva; Θῆβαι, Thêbai.) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece, and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

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Tiryns

Tiryns (or; Ancient Greek: Τίρυνς; Modern Greek: Τίρυνθα) is a Mycenaean archaeological site in Argolis in the Peloponnese, and the location from which the mythical hero Heracles was said to have performed his Twelve Labours.

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Vrysinas

Vrysinas (βρύσινας) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan peak sanctuary.

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Writing system

A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.

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Zakros

Zakros (Ζάκρος also Zakro or Kato Zakro) is a Minoan archaeological site on the eastern coast of Crete in Lasithi, Greece.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan_hieroglyphs

Also known as Cretan hieroglyphics, Creton Hieroglyphics, Godart & Olivier, Godart and Olivier, Minoan hieroglyphic signary, Minoan hieroglyphs, Minoan pictographic writing.

Cretan hieroglyphs, the Glossary

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