Cretan HieroglyphicEvidence
Evidence · Cretan Hieroglyphic
The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.
The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.
What it means
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onThe language cannot be identified from this corpus: it is an isolate or a language with no other written record, and…
Supports1 for, none 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
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 3
SRC
Cretan hieroglyphs (Wikipedia article)
SRCcontributors 2026
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists. [Evidence EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deeav65zmb0,
title = {The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0}
}