# 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.

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# 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.

Speculative0

## What it means

Key question[What language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8TY5JS3/what-language-do-the-eteocypriot-inscriptions-of-amathus)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Eteocypriot is a Hurrian dialect brought to Amathus from Anatolia or northern Syria.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEECFS5P8ZK/eteocypriot-is-a-hurrian-dialect-brought-to-amathus-from)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## 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

[On: What language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8TY5JS3/what-language-do-the-eteocypriot-inscriptions-of-amathus)

**—** not judged

2

Transcribe Steele's EC 1 to EC 26 into Unicode Cypriot syllabary as an open dataset.

~10 h

[On: What language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8TY5JS3/what-language-do-the-eteocypriot-inscriptions-of-amathus)

**—** 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](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKHVV72BQ/eteocypriot-myth-and-amathusian-reality)

Petit 1999

SRC

## Cite it

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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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Key

**EVD** 0DEEDG7DH8JF

Kind

Evidence

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Speculative

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/sessions/SES0DEEE7NHGFE2/session-1-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-seeded-corpus-readings) · 31 Oct 2026

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