Eteocretan and EteocypriotEvidence
Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot
Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side…
Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side depends on unconfirmed Linear A readings.
What it means
Key questionWhat language do the Eteocretan inscriptions of Praisos and Dreros record?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onEteocretan is Tyrrhenian, related to Etruscan and Lemnian
Counts against1 for, 1 against
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
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side… [Evidence EVD0DEED3MZVF09]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED3MZVF09
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deed3mzvf09,
title = {Etruscologists including Rix and De Simone judge the shared features too few to show relationship, and the Minoan side…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEED3MZVF09},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEED3MZVF09}
}