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Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered hieroglyphs found on artefacts of early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. It predates Linear A by about a century, but continued to be used in parallel for most of their history.〔Yule 1981, 170-1〕 ==Corpus== In 1989, Jean-Pierre Olivier described the state of the Cretan hieroglyphs corpus as follows, More documents have been published since then, such as, for example, from the Petras deposit. The known corpus has been edited in 1996 as ''CHIC'' (Olivier/Godard 1996), mainly excavated at four locations: *"Quartier Mu" at Malia (MM II) *the hieroglyphic deposit at Malia palace (MM III) *the hieroglyphic deposit at Knossos (MM II or III) *the Petras deposit (MM IIB): a hieroglyphic archive excavated starting in 1995. Definitive edition was published in 2010.〔Metaxia Tsipopoulou & Erik Hallager, ''The Hieroglyphic Archive at Petras, Siteia'' (with contributions by Cesare D’Annibale & Dimitra Mylona). (Download PDF file 60 MB ) Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, volume 9. The Danish Institute at Athens. Athens, 2010 ISBN 978-87-7934-293-4〕 The corpus consists of: *clay documents with incised inscriptions (CHIC H: 1-122) *sealstone impressions (CHIC I: 123-179) *sealstones (CHIC S: 180-314) *the Malia altar stone *the Phaistos Disk *the Arkalochori Axe *seal fragment HM 992, showing a single symbol, identical to Phaistos Disk glyph 21. The relation of the last three items with the script of the main corpus is uncertain. Some Cretan Hieroglyphic (as well as Linear A) inscriptions were also found on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean.〔Margalit Finkelberg, (''Bronze Age Writing: Contacts between East and West''. ) In E. H. Cline and D. Harris-Cline (eds.). ''The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium''. Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Symposium, Cincinnati, 18–20 April 1997. Liège 1998. Aegeum 18 (1998) 265-272.〕 It has been suggested that there was an evolution of the hieroglyphs into the linear scripts. Also, some relations to Anatolian hieroglyphs have been suggested. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cretan hieroglyphs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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