Aegean script

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Aegean script or Cretan script refers to a group of scripts that originate from the island of Crete. It may also refer to:

  • Cretan hieroglyphs, found on artifacts of early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era, before Linear A
  • Linear A, one of two currently undeciphered writing systems used in ancient Greece
  • Linear B (Creto-Mycenaean script), a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek

See also

  • Phaistos Disc, a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete
  • Cypro-Minoan script, an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age
  • Cypriot script, a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus
  • Greek script, the Greek alphabet used since the late 9th century BC

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