Eteocretan and EteocypriotEvidence
Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot
Gordon read lmo in the Dreros bilingual as Semitic "for his mother", and Magnelli and Petrantoni's 2016 re-reading…
Gordon read lmo in the Dreros bilingual as Semitic "for his mother", and Magnelli and Petrantoni's 2016 re-reading supports a Northwest Semitic word at the end of that text.
What it means
Key questionWhat language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possibleunchanged
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
—not judged
2
Measure whether 420 letters can discriminate between candidate languages using frequency tables and a shuffled null.
~6 h
—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
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 2
Eteocretan
SRCGordon 1962
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Gordon read lmo in the Dreros bilingual as Semitic "for his mother", and Magnelli and Petrantoni's 2016 re-reading… [Evidence EVD0DEED35QZP9X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED35QZP9X
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deed35qzp9x,
title = {Gordon read lmo in the Dreros bilingual as Semitic "for his mother", and Magnelli and Petrantoni's 2016 re-reading…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEED35QZP9X},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED35QZP9X}
}