# Jean-Pierre Olivier · Person

> Epigraphist; co-editor of CHIC. In Cretan Hieroglyphic.

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# Jean-Pierre Olivier

Epigraphist; co-editor of CHIC **1936–2020.**

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[1 event][2 sources]

Jean-Pierre Olivier is belgian epigraphist of the Aegean scripts, co-editor with Louis Godart of the Linear A corpus GORILA and of the Cretan Hieroglyphic corpus CHIC (1996). (1936–2020), and appears in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic as epigraphist; co-editor of CHIC.

One event on the site involves Olivier: Olivier and Godart publish the Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (1996).

Three questions rest in part on what Olivier did or said, among them “How is Cretan Hieroglyphic related to Linear A: parent, sister, or neither?”, which stands open: 2 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Cretan Hieroglyphic**

Epigraphist; co-editor of CHIC · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

[How is Cretan Hieroglyphic related to Linear A: parent, sister, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWYGYVMBZ/how-is-cretan-hieroglyphic-related-to-linear-a-parent-sister)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[What did the clay documents and the seal inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX1A1NMX2/what-did-the-clay-documents-and-the-seal-inscriptions-record)Open: no answer ahead yet

[What language does Cretan Hieroglyphic record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDWHYH7XCD/what-language-does-cretan-hieroglyphic-record)Open: 6 answers, none ahead

## What Jean-Pierre Olivier did 1

1996[Olivier and Godart publish the Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDSC5E2ZP2/olivier-and-godart-publish-the-corpus-hieroglyphicarum)

with [Louis Godart](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDR63MRNXK/louis-godart)

## Worked with 1

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**Louis Godart**

Cretan Hieroglyphic

](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDR63MRNXK/louis-godart)

## Sources 2

[Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (CHIC)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGHHEQ8AC/corpus-hieroglyphicarum-inscriptionum-cretae-chic)

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[Cretan Writing in the Second Millennium B.C.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJFSH64K1/cretan-writing-in-the-second-millennium-b-c)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Jean-Pierre Olivier [Person FIG0DEDR2RNQSAD]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDR2RNQSAD
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Person

Born

1936

Died

2020

Occupation

Co-editor of CHIC, Author of the 1986 survey of Cretan writing

Identity

Belgian epigraphist of the Aegean scripts, co-editor with Louis Godart of the Linear A corpus GORILA and of the Cretan Hieroglyphic corpus CHIC (1996).

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[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

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