Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
There are approximately two hundred identified Cypro-Minoan inscriptions (excluding potmarks). Most are very short (one or two sequences totaling fewer than ten signs). They are impressed, incised, or painted on a variety of objects and materials in an assortment of lengths and formats and are found in a diversity of contexts widely dispersed across the island of Cyprus and at Ras Shamra-Ugarit on the mainland. They span the entire Late Bronze Age (16th-11th centuries BC) and perhaps continue into the very early Iron Age.
The earliest discoveries were made at the end of the 19th century; most recently, Cypro-Minoan has been recognized at Ras Shamra-Ugarit and perhaps at Ashkelon. The script has not been deciphered, and any claims to have done so are premature, for the extant corpus is too limited, and there is no bilingual.
Editor
Eric H. Cline
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York
ISBN
9780195365504
Repository Citation
Hirschfeld, N. (2010). Cypro-Minoan. In E. H. Cline (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the bronze age Aegean (pp. 373-384). Oxford University Press.
Publication Information
The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean