# 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.

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# 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.

Suggestive0

## 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)

Counts against1 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 2

[A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKHJENGE8/a-linguistic-history-of-ancient-cyprus-the-non-greek)

Steele 2013

SRC

[Review of P. M. Steele, A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDR0HMJHWH/review-of-p-m-steele-a-linguistic-history-of-ancient-cyprus)

Petrakis 2015

SRC

## Cite it

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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
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Key

**EVD** 0DEEDGC57JK0

Kind

Evidence

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Suggestive

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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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