Eteocretan and EteocypriotEvidence
Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot
Petit links Amathusian personal and place names and the city's archaeology to Hurrian-speaking populations of Anatolia…
Petit links Amathusian personal and place names and the city's archaeology to Hurrian-speaking populations of Anatolia and Syria.
What it means
Key questionWhat language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?
4 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onEteocypriot is a Hurrian dialect brought to Amathus from Anatolia or northern Syria.
Supports1 for, 1 against
Still possibleunchanged
Next steps 2
1
Transcribe Steele's 26 Eteocypriot texts (EC 1 to EC 26) into Unicode Cypriot syllabary with ICS and IG XV numbers, so endings such as -o-ko-o- and -o-ti can be counted and compared with Cypro-Minoan sequences under a shuffled-sign null.
~10 h
—not judged
2
Transcribe Steele's EC 1 to EC 26 into Unicode Cypriot syllabary as an open dataset.
~10 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 1
Eteocypriot myth and Amathusian reality
SRCPetit 1999
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Petit links Amathusian personal and place names and the city's archaeology to Hurrian-speaking populations of Anatolia… [Evidence EVD0DEEDG7DH8JF]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDG7DH8JF
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title = {Petit links Amathusian personal and place names and the city's archaeology to Hurrian-speaking populations of Anatolia…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEDG7DH8JF},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDG7DH8JF}
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