Evidence · Eteocretan and Eteocypriot

Egetmeyer's "Golgian" proposal suggests the non-Greek texts of Golgoi may record a second language, which no listed…

Egetmeyer's "Golgian" proposal suggests the non-Greek texts of Golgoi may record a second language, which no listed hypothesis covers.

Speculative0

What it means

Key questionWhat language do the Eteocypriot inscriptions of Amathus record?

4 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onNone of these.

Bears onnone for, none against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

Next steps 2

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?

—not judged

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?

—not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

Sources 2

Review of M. Kantiréa and D. Summa (eds), Inscriptiones Graecae XV 2.1: Inscriptiones Cypri orientalis

Pestarino 2021

SRC

Review of P. M. Steele, A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus

Petrakis 2015

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Egetmeyer's "Golgian" proposal suggests the non-Greek texts of Golgoi may record a second language, which no listed… [Evidence EVD0DEEDH217SMJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDH217SMJ

@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deedh217smj,
  title     = {Egetmeyer's "Golgian" proposal suggests the non-Greek texts of Golgoi may record a second language, which no listed…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEDH217SMJ},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEDH217SMJ}
}