Cretan hieroglyphs
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.
Corpus
In 1989, Jean-Pierre Olivier described the state of the Cretan hieroglyphs corpus as follows,
The seals and sealings represent about 307 distinct sign-groups, consisting all together of ± 832 signs. The other inscriptions represent about 274 distinct sign-groups, consisting all together of ± 723 signs.
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:
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