# Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without…

> Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without controls and was rejected on review; it…

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# Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without…

Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without controls and was rejected on review; it also relied on the Psychro stone, now widely judged a forgery.

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## What it means

Key question[What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Eteocretan is an Anatolian language, related to Hittite, Luwian or Lycian.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEEC4FN0E6T/eteocretan-is-an-anatolian-language-related-to-hittite)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

From the site's transliteration CSV (DAT0DEDYM8KKQV6), build letter and bigram frequency tables for the Eteocretan lines and compare them with Greek, Lycian, Etruscan and Phoenician samples of equal length, with a shuffled-text null, to measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages at all.

~6 h

[On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

**—** not judged

2

Measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages using frequency tables and a shuffled null.

~6 h

[On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

**—** not judged

3

List every recurring Eteocretan sequence of three or more letters (inai, irer, -mit-, komn, phraiso-) with line positions across all six stones, and check each published Anatolian, Semitic and Tyrrhenian proposal against the full list rather than the words it chose.

~4 h

[On: What language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8QBDF18/what-language-do-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-of-praisos-and)

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 2

[The "Bilingual" inscription from Psychro (Crete): A coup de grâce](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDQE1AS4YK/the-bilingual-inscription-from-psychro-crete-a-coup-de-grace)

Kritzas 2006

SRC

[The Phaistos Disk and the Eteocretan Inscriptions from Psychro and Praisos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDR2FF9H56/the-phaistos-disk-and-the-eteocretan-inscriptions-from)

Davis 1961

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Davis's 1961 Hittite-based reading of the Praisos and Psychro texts assigned meanings to isolated words without… [Evidence EVD0DEED2QADJJH]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED2QADJJH
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