#cretan hieroglyphic

[da-pu-ri-to-jo-po-ti-ni-ja]

✨ tag yourself ✨ but with Aegean Scripts! Mainly Bronze Age, with a sprinkle of Iron Age (Cypriot Syllabary).

#tagamemnon #ancient greece #crete #minoan #scripture #history #classics #bronze age #cretan hieroglyphic #linear a #phaistos disc #linear b #cyprominoan #cypriot Syllabary #arkalochori axe #archaeology #tag yourself

[hadrianandantinuous]

A green jasper seal displaying Cretan hieroglyphs, c. 1800 BCE, Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Greece

(AKA kitty and some friends)

#lukas goes to school #history #archaeoblr #cretan hieroglyphs #hieroglyphs #minoan #ancient greece #ancient history

[linguisticdiscovery]

7 undeciphered writing systems

(While reading, remember that it’s possible to decipher a script and still not understand the language that the script represents.)

(Each heading links to that script's respective Wikipedia page.)

Byblos Syllabary

The Byblos syllabary is attested in 10 inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. It likely represents a Semitic language, but despite a handful of attempts at decipherment, there still isn’t a consensus as to what sound each character represents.

Cypro-Minoan Syllabary

The Cypro-Minoan syllabary appears on ~250 objects—especially clay balls and cylinders that were used for recording economic transactions—on the island of Cyprus.

The script suddenly disappears in 950 BCE and was replaced by the Cypriot syllabary, which was used to write Greek, and based on Cypro-Minoan. This evolution allows us to infer the sounds of some of the signs in Cypro-Minoan, but we still don’t know what language it represented—probably either Minoan or Eteocypriot.

There are only ~2,500 total instances of signs for Cypro-Minoan, which is significantly less than Linear B when it was deciphered (~30,000).

Indus Valley Script

The Indus Valley script is known from ~4,000 objects with very short inscriptions found in and around the Indus Valley, and represents the Harappan language (the unknown language of the Indus Valley civilization).

It has about 400 distinct signs, which is too many for each sign to represent a single sound or syllable, but too few for each sign to represent a word. Scholars thus think the system is logo-syllabic (basically a mix of the two).

Linear A

Linear A: Everybody’s favorite mysterious undeciphered script. Linear A was used by the Minoans on the island of Crete, and is called “linear” because the script is written by cutting lines into clay, rather than pressing wedges into clay like cuneiform.

Linear A was adapted to write Mycenean Greek and became Linear B (deciphered in the 1950s), and because of this we can infer many of the sound values of symbols in Linear A. However, 80% of Linear A’s signs are unique, not shared with Linear B.

Linear A itself probably developed from the earlier Cretan hieroglyphs, which are also undeciphered.

Phaistos Disk

The Phaistos Disk. Also from the Minoan civilization on Crete, yet seemingly unrelated to Linear A. This disk is the only certain attestation of this (assumed) script, spiraling around both sides. There are 242 tokens comprising 45 distinct signs.

The Phaistos Disk also happens to be an early example of moving type printing, since each character was made by pressing seals into clay.

Proto-Elamite

The Proto-Elamite script developed alongside Proto-Cuneiform, and was used for similar functions and in similar ways until it was replaced by cuneiform. Proto-Elamite, like cuneiform, began as a system of marking tokens and spheres with details of economic transactions.

Rongorongo

Rongorongo is a system of glyphs used on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), found only on about two dozen wooden objects. According to oral history, the tablets were considered sacred, and only a small elite class could read them. Unfortunately, that tradition was wiped out after slaving raids and epidemics caused the collapse of Rapa Nui society.

Though the glyphs, if they are writing, undoubtedly represent the Rapa Nui language, little is known about it because modern Rapa Nui has had heavy influence from Tahitian.

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Want to learn more about the world’s writing systems and their history? Check out my curated list of books on Writing & Writing Systems!

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[gothikaxenon]

Total Drama Ridonculous Race Fanwork Ideas

I’ve been considering a Total Drama Ridonculous Race fanseries and I need some suggestions for this.

So far I came up with several teams, locations, and challenges listed below, but I’ll be needing more ideas.

Teams:

Ex-Couple (Gwen and Trent) Environmentalists (Bridgette and Dawn) Geeks (Cody and Harold) Cousins (Leshawna and Leshaniqua) Son and Mom (DJ and his Mama) Villainous Couple (Heather and Alejandro) Models (Justin and Anne Maria) Farm Boys (Scott and Rodney) Athletes (Sky and ____) Survivalists (Jasmine and Shawn) Cheerleader Twins (Amy and Samey) Pageant Queens (Sugar and ____) Goths (Crimson and Ennui) Reality TV Pros (Noah and Owen) Stepbrothers (Lorenzo and Chet) Newly-Weds (Carrie and Devin) Girl Scouts (OCs) Acrobats (OCs)

Locations:

Great Lakes; Canada Rocky Mountains; Canada Rome; Italy Crete; Greece Loch Ness; Scotland Tokyo; Japan Seoul; South Korea Gobi Desert; Mongolia Himalayas; Tibet Phnom Penh; Cambodia Bankok; Thailand Port Dickson; Malaysia Manila; Philippines Galapagos Islands Alaska; United States Texas; United States San Francisco California; United States Honey Island Louisiana; United States Havana; Cuba Fajardo; Puerto Rico Panama City; Panama Great Barrier Reef; Australia Madagascar Antarctica Jeddah; Saudi Arabia Giza; Egypt

Challenges:

Gladiator themed challenge at a colosseum (Rome; Italy) Exploring and escaping the Cretan labyrinth (Crete; Greece) Exploring Loch Ness and eating haggis (Loch Ness; Scotland) Samurai themed challenge and haiku writing (Tokyo; Japan) Fossil hunting (Gobi Desert; Mongolia) Exploring Mount Everest (Himalayas; Tibet) Tortoise race (Galapagos Islands) Iditarod challenge (Alaska; United States) Rodeo challenge (Texas; United States) Investigating Alcatraz Prison (San Francisco California; United States) Exploring Honey Island Swamp (Honey Island Louisiana; United States) Finding treasure in a coral reef (Great Barrier Reef; Australia) Penguin round-up and finding a RR branded fake penguin egg (Antarctica) Decoding imagery on carpets (Jeddah; Saudi Arabia) Pyramid and tomb exploration with hieroglyphic decoding (Giza Egypt)

Please leave comments on this post if you can suggest ideas for this topic.

I need a total of 18 teams and 26 locations (already considered), and 26 challenges.

#Total Drama #Ridonculous Race #Fanseries #Fan Season

[barbariankingdom]

A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, an undeciphered writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete during the Minoan era. 1800 BCE, now housed at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Greece.

[dapurinthos]

oh this is exciting. the cretan hieroglyphic 095/RA originally was a face!

[hexjulia]

Cretan Hieroglyphic sealstone; intaglio  + its impression.

https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/crews-display-a-tiny-cretan-hieroglyphic-seal-stone/

#Cretan Hieroglyphic

[rjhamster]

What Is The World’s Oldest Writing System?

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[nikkomeow1]

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[meniligonih]

Ogham rune meanings pdf

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[crunch-nerd]

I am once again wishing that Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphs were deciphered

#crunch rambles #Linear A #Cretan hieroglyphs #minoan civilization #someone had better decipher it soon

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

God you really just got to say whatever back in the day

#reading all of Sir Arthur Evans speculations about the meaning of Cretan Hieroglyphs like sure the human eye can mean observance or #governance like whatever yeah call that a honey pot it’ll be funny in 100 years #still better than trying to find stuff in the CHIC

[oygayizmir]

throwback to that one time where i tried to decipher Cretan Hieroglyphs 💀

#i was so confident #cretan hieroglyphs

[orthographiafititisagori]

Cretan Hieroglyphs

The Cretan Hieroglyphs are an undeciphered script from Bronze Age Crete. It is believed that they were used for the Keftiu (”Minoan”) language. However, due to lack of understanding, this can not be proven, yet that is. It was first attested in 2100 BCE, but the language could have been spoken long before. The hieroglyphs later developed into the Linear A script, but hieroglyphs were used alongside Linear A for a number of years. It is believed that the hieroglyphs, like in Linear B, are a mixture of logograms and syllables. As with all undeciphered scripts, we have no way to be certain of anything. Here are some characters that look similar to that of Linear B, so it can be assumed that they might make the same sound!

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Here is a comparison of some Cretan Hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B, and their possible transliteration!

#crete #cretan #Cretan hieroglyphs #Minoan #Minoan language #I'm not really happy with this post so I might remake it another day

[covertrook]

The Cretan hieroglyphs however, unlike the Egyptian, were never deciphered. Maybe our fate would have been different if our cultures had not been shaped around the glory-seeking of Athens and funereal gloom of Memphis, but instead we had lavished our attention on young men springing on the back of bulls, on blue and gold dolphins leaping, and a dance that imitates a foraging honeybee communicating with her sisters.

Charlotte Du Cann

#covertrook #quote #Charlotte Du Cann #cretan #hieroglyphs #egyptian #deciphered #fate #cultures #glory #seeking #athens #funereal #gloom #memphis #young me #springing #back #bulls #blue #gold #dolphins #dance #imitates #foraging #honeybee #sisters

[ball-eis-korakas]

In the spring of 1900, [Louis] Pernier and his team, based in a nearby monastery, sank the first trenches across the ruins.  Over the next few years, the outlines of a great palace of a hundred rooms emerged.  Off to one side, gypsum paving led to the remains of eight little storerooms.  On the afternoon of July 3rd 1908, some of Pernier's team scratching away at earth, ash, charcoal and some bits of pottery in the eighth storeroom, came across a disc of baked clay about 16 cm (6 inches) across.  One each side was a spiral of 241 little pictures (242 if you include one that seems to have been erased.)  It was writing, of an unknown kind. Minoan officials long kept their accounts in writing, incising symbols on clay.  Originally this had been simple picture-writing, so-called Cretan hieroglyphic.  Later, by 1700 BC, Cretans had devised a second script now known as 'Linear A', which is still undeciphered.  Later still, after the fall of the Minoans, Greek colonists used a third script, 'Linear B'.  But the Phaistos Disc was written in none of these, nor in any other known script.

Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World

#languages #alphabets #minoan language #cretan hieroglyphs #linear a #linear b #phaistos disc #louis pernier