# 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.

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# 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 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[None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/answers/ANS0DEECGY87X8H/none-of-these)

Bears onnone for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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

[Review of M. Kantiréa and D. Summa (eds), Inscriptiones Graecae XV 2.1: Inscriptiones Cypri orientalis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDRZ0TZS46/review-of-m-kantirea-and-d-summa-eds-inscriptiones-graecae)

Pestarino 2021

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). 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
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