A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, 1800 BC
Script type
Undeciphered
(presumed ideographic, possibly with a syllabic component)
Time period
MM I to MM III
2100–1700 BC
Status
Extinct
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Unknown; possibly "Minoan"
Related scripts
Parent systems
Proto-writing
Cretan hieroglyphs
Sister systems
Linear A
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Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history.[1] As of 2024[update], they are undeciphered.
^Yule (1981), pp. 170–171.
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