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A 2021 sign-by-sign review reduces CHIC's 144 signs to about 98 by merging allographs and reassigning a few signs to…
A 2021 sign-by-sign review reduces CHIC's 144 signs to about 98 by merging allographs and reassigning a few signs to Linear A.
What it means
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Answer this evidence bears onThe script has about 100 distinct signs once allographs are merged, close to the size of the Linear A and B syllabaries.
Supports1 for, none against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
Sources 2
Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (CHIC)
SRCOlivier et al. 1996
Rationalizing the Cretan Hieroglyphic sign-list
SRCMontecchi et al. 2021
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). A 2021 sign-by-sign review reduces CHIC's 144 signs to about 98 by merging allographs and reassigning a few signs to… [Evidence EVD0DEEB9B3K7HS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEB9B3K7HS
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title = {A 2021 sign-by-sign review reduces CHIC's 144 signs to about 98 by merging allographs and reassigning a few signs to…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEB9B3K7HS},
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