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Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context
Thomas G. Palaima, 1989. Duhoux, Palaima and Bennet (eds), Problems in Decipherment. BCILL 49, Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 121 to 187.
The classic statement of why Cypro-Minoan resists decipherment: few and short texts, unclear subdivisions, no bilingual, unknown language; concludes that all past and current decipherment schemes are improbable.
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Source for the methodological case against the published decipherments.
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Palaima, T. G. (1989). Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context. Duhoux, Palaima and Bennet (eds), Problems in Decipherment. BCILL 49, Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 121 to 187. https://doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e626450
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Palaima, Thomas G.. “Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context.” Duhoux, Palaima and Bennet (eds), Problems in Decipherment. BCILL 49, Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 121 to 187 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e626450.