# 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…

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# 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.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

6 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Cretan Hieroglyphic is an ornamental form of a Cretan proto-syllabary whose sign names and values come from Sumerian.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/answers/ANS0DEDZ5QXZJKJ/cretan-hieroglyphic-is-an-ornamental-form-of-a-cretan-proto)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was 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

[On: What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

**—** not judged

2

Build an open sign-level table of the CHIC clay documents in CHIC sign numbers.

~40 h

[On: What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

**—** 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

[On: What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

**—** 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

[On: What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[Cretan Hieroglyphic: The Earliest Script on Crete. Semiotics, Linguistics, Archaeology and Palaeography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGNWHJN54/cretan-hieroglyphic-the-earliest-script-on-crete-semiotics)

Civitillo et al. 2024

SRC

[Cretan Hieroglyphics: The Ornamental and Ritual Version of the Cretan Protolinear Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJVBE1VPD/cretan-hieroglyphics-the-ornamental-and-ritual-version-of)

Kenanidis 2016

SRC

## Cite it

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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
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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/sessions/SES0DEECGMX10RS/session-1-cretan-hieroglyphic-seeded-corpus-readings-and) · 31 Oct 2026

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