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The Common Origin of Cretan Hieroglyphs and Linear A

Gareth Alun Owens, 1996.

MYS0DEDP45YCRTW · mystery · click to copyMCretan HieroglyphicArticledoi: 10.1515/kadm.1996.35.2.1050

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Kadmos 35(2), pp. 105 to 110. Argues from shared sign shapes and shared sign groups that Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A descend from one Prepalatial source and that Linear A values can be carried over to the hieroglyphic homomorphs. Representative of the position that the two scripts are sister systems rather than parent and child.

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Gareth Alun Owens (1996). The Common Origin of Cretan Hieroglyphs and Linear A. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadm.1996.35.2.105
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