Cypro-Minoan Syllabary: Used on the island of Cyprus between 1550–1050 BCE, Cypro-Minoan appears on clay tablets, votive offerings, and pottery. It likely evolved from Linear A and may have recorded an early form of Eteocypriot, a pre-Greek language. The script features around 55 signs, some resembling Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs. Despite its longevity and wide distribution, no bilingual text has been found, and the corpus is fragmented. It eventually gave way to the fully deciphered Cypriot syllabary. Cypro-Minoan remains a key but unreadable link in the evolution of writing in the Eastern Mediterranean, preserving the voice of a lost Cypriot culture.
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