Eteocretan and EteocypriotEvidence
Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot
No Eteocypriot inscription has been read as Hurrian, and Steele's review of all 26 texts finds no secure link to…
No Eteocypriot inscription has been read as Hurrian, and Steele's review of all 26 texts finds no secure link to Hurrian or any other language.
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.
Counts against1 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 2
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). No Eteocypriot inscription has been read as Hurrian, and Steele's review of all 26 texts finds no secure link to… [Evidence EVD0DEEDGC57JK0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDGC57JK0
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deedgc57jk0,
title = {No Eteocypriot inscription has been read as Hurrian, and Steele's review of all 26 texts finds no secure link to…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEDGC57JK0},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDGC57JK0}
}