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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).
- Cypriot syllabary
The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot...
- Cypriot syllabary
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary, used between Cyprus and its trading partners around the Mediterranean, was also in use during this period. The sequence and the geographical spread of Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A, and Linear B, the three overlapping but distinct writing systems on Bronze Age Crete and the Greek mainland , can be ...
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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
is the first comprehensive account of the ‘Cypro-Minoan’ and ‘Cypriot syllabic’ scripts to appear in a single volume, and forms an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology.
From the Cypro-Minoan to the Cypro-Greek syllabaries: linguistic remarks on the script reform
