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Is the Psychro inscription a genuine Eteocretan text or a modern forgery?

Asked 31 Oct 2026 by ·2 answers·0·0 following
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Brown and Duhoux accepted the Psychro stone as Eteocretan, but Kritzas argued in 2006 that it is a modern forgery, and the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum records it as such⁠[1]⁠[2]. Kenanidis and Papakitsos defend it and base a decipherment on it⁠[3].

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The Psychro stone is a modern forgery.
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  1. Raymond A. Brown: brown and Duhoux admitted the stone to the corpus, and Papakitsos and Kenanidis argue it is genuine, though they have…For: The Psychro stone is a genuine Eteocretan inscription of about the 3rd century BC.
  2. Charalambos B. Kritzas: kritzas's 2006 epigraphic and historical case that the stone is modern is recorded in the Supplementum Epigraphicum…For: The Psychro stone is a modern forgery.
  3. Ioannis K. Kenanidis: brown and Duhoux admitted the stone to the corpus, and Papakitsos and Kenanidis argue it is genuine, though they have…For: The Psychro stone is a genuine Eteocretan inscription of about the 3rd century BC.
  4. Session 1: raised the question, proposed two answers and found two results bearing on its answers
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