page_title: Cretan hieroglyphs
section_title: Signs
hierarchical_section_title: Cretan hieroglyphs / Signs
caption_attribution_description: English: The Archanes Script. MM IA / MMIB, 2100-1800 BC. Unusual Cretan hieroglyphs. Arhcanes Phourni. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Sk 2260. Čeština: Nápis s Archanes, neobvyklá forma krétských hieroglyfů. Archanes, Fourni, 2100-1800 před n. l. Archeologické muzeum v Irakliu.
context_page_description: 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. As of 2020, they are undeciphered.
context_section_description: Symbol inventories have been compiled by Evans (1909),  Meijer (1982), and Olivier/Godart (1996).
  The glyph inventory in CHIC includes 96 syllabograms representing sounds, ten of which double as logograms, representing words or portions of words.
  There are also 23 logograms representing four levels of numerals (units, tens, hundreds, thousands), numerical fractions, and two types of punctuation.
  Many symbols have apparent Linear A counterparts, so that it is tempting to insert Linear B sound values. Moreover, there are multiple parallels (words and phrases) from hieroglyphic inscriptions that occur also in Linear A and/or B in similar contexts (words for "total", toponyms, personal names etc.)
caption: The Archanes Script. MM IA / MMIB, 2100–1800 BC. Archanes type of Cretan hieroglyphs. Arhcanes Phourni. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
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