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Cretan hieroglyphs

undecyphered bronze-age Cretan writing system
Class type of: hieroglyph Q966893
Cretan hieroglyphs
Ingo Pini · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
undeciphered writing system, Aegean scripts[6]
Inception
2100 BC[10]
Country
Greece, Ancient Greece, Ancient Crete[3][4][5]
Language of work or name
Minoan[9]
Followed by
Linear A[7]
Subclass of
hieroglyph[8]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13]
Discoverer or inventor
Arthur Evans[2]
End time
1600 BC[12]
Script directionality
left-to-right[14]
Start time
2000 BC[11]
Time period
Bronze Age[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cretan hieroglyphs cs krétské hieroglyfy de kretische Hieroglyphen el Κρητικά Ιερογλυφικά es jeroglifico minoico es Jeroglifico cretense es jeroglífico cretense es jeroglífico minoico fi Kreetalaiset hieroglyfit fr hiéroglyphe crétois fr hiéroglyphes crétois he הירוגליפים כרתיים hi क्रीटी लिपि id Hieroglif Kreta it geroglifico cretese ja クレタ聖刻文字 pl Kreteńskie pismo hieroglificzne pt hieróglifo minoico pt hieróglifos minoicos ru Критские иероглифы
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Freebase ID
/m/0bqck4
NL CR AUT ID
ph175759
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
crt6lWHcwTtnI, pcrtvs5kd7zg0z
Topic's main category
Category:Cretan hieroglyphs

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🔗 Connections
Country 2
Greece, Ancient Greece
Instance of 2
undeciphered writing system, Aegean scripts
Discoverer or inventor 1
Arthur Evans
Followed by 1
Linear A
Followed by (predecessor) 1
Linear A
Language of work or name 1
Minoan
Subclass of 1
hieroglyph
Time period 1
Bronze Age
← Based on 1
Linear A
← Writing system 1
Minoan
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Summary

Cretan hieroglyphs is an undeciphered writing system[1].

Related Entities

Arthur Evans Greece

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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