Cretan HieroglyphicEvidence
Evidence · Cretan Hieroglyphic
The Sumerian-derived Protolinear reading rests on resemblance of sign shapes, was published outside the Aegean…
The Sumerian-derived Protolinear reading rests on resemblance of sign shapes, was published outside the Aegean epigraphic literature, and has not been tested against the corpus by specialists.
What it means
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Answer this evidence bears onCretan Hieroglyphic is an ornamental form of a Cretan proto-syllabary whose sign names and values come from Sumerian.
Counts againstnone for, 1 against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
Next steps 4
1
Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents (H 1 to 122): document id, site, object type, each sign group in CHIC sign numbers with position, logograms and numerals; licence the table separately from CHIC's images. This is the prerequisite for every test below.
~40 h
—not judged
2
Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents in CHIC sign numbers.
~40 h
—not judged
3
Compare word-initial and word-final frequencies of the signs shared with Linear A in that table against SigLA/GORILA Linear A and against Linear B Greek, with a shuffled-sign null model, to test whether Cretan Hieroglyphic patterns like Linear A (H-MINOAN).
~12 h
—not judged
4
Apply the Corazza et al. 2021 Linear A fraction values to the hieroglyphic fraction signs (CHIC 301 to 309) on every clay document with a total, and report how many totals add up versus random value assignments.
~8 h
—not judged
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Sources 2
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Sumerian-derived Protolinear reading rests on resemblance of sign shapes, was published outside the Aegean… [Evidence EVD0DEEARGZ9ZDP]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEARGZ9ZDP
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deeargz9zdp,
title = {The Sumerian-derived Protolinear reading rests on resemblance of sign shapes, was published outside the Aegean…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEARGZ9ZDP},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEARGZ9ZDP}
}