# Silvia Ferrara 2024: Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

> Silvia Ferrara, 2024. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Chapter 1 of Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner (eds), Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cambridge…

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# Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Silvia Ferrara, 2024.

**Cretan Hieroglyphic** Chapter0

## What it's used for here

Chapter 1 of Civitillo, Ferrara and Meissner (eds), Cretan Hieroglyphic, Cambridge University Press 2024 (book DOI 10.1017/9781009490122), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; open copy on the Bologna repository. The history of the sign inventory from Evans's 135 signs to CHIC's 144 in five classes (based on 331 objects) and the INSCRIBE reassessments; the corpus as fewer than 150 clay inscriptions and about 200 seals; the clay-attestation criterion by which CHIC excluded seal-only graphs, and the objections to it.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The Malia Quartier Mu hieroglyphic deposit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/artifacts/ART0DEDT0EEHVV0/the-malia-quartier-mu-hieroglyphic-deposit)

ART

[Jasink restored more than thirty seal graphs to the sign list, back towards Evans's 135-sign repertoire.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEBA83WQ2C/jasink-restored-more-than-thirty-seal-graphs-to-the-sign)

Evidence

EVD

[Low frequencies make it impossible to chart the distribution of many seal graphs, so whether each is decorative…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB6VYMPP3/low-frequencies-make-it-impossible-to-chart-the-distribution)

Evidence

EVD

[The clay-attestation rule excludes by construction any sign used only on seals, and has been rejected by Jasink…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEB8AP5TPT/the-clay-attestation-rule-excludes-by-construction-any-sign)

Evidence

EVD

[The corpus is about 1,500 signs in short texts, no sound value is secure and no bilingual exists.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/evidence/EVD0DEEAV65ZMB0/the-corpus-is-about-1-500-signs-in-short-texts-no-sound)

Evidence

EVD

[Evans publishes the first sign list of 135 signs in Scripta Minoa I](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDS67GZVD2/evans-publishes-the-first-sign-list-of-135-signs-in-scripta)

EVT

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Silvia Ferrara (2024). Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. https://cris.unibo.it/retrieve/4d46baae-d5a6-4071-96b6-07acb6b83f2b/Cretan%20Hieroglyphic_CUP_ch1.pdf
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[Find it at cris.unibo.it](https://cris.unibo.it/retrieve/4d46baae-d5a6-4071-96b6-07acb6b83f2b/Cretan%20Hieroglyphic_CUP_ch1.pdf)

Key

**SRC** 0DEDKWQ4P0TK

Kind

Book chapter

Rights

The publisher's

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31 Oct 2026, for editors

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