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Aegean scripts

family of writing systems used in Ancient Crete; encompasses Cretan Hieroglyphs, Linear A and Linear B
Class type of: writing system Q4241360

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
script family
Subclass of
writing system[2]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en Aegean script en Aegean scripts de Ägäische Schriftsysteme fr écriture égéenne fr écritures égéennes ru крито-микенское письмо ru критское письмо ru линейное письмо ru эгейское письмо uk Критська писемність uk критське письмо
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/0f11q6
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2113644
Topic's main category
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🔗 Connections
Examples 2
Linear A, Cretan hieroglyphs
Subclass of 1
writing system
Subtypes 1
Linear B
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Summary

Aegean scripts is a script family[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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