Aegean script or Cretan script refers to a group of scripts that originate from the island of Crete. It may also refer to:
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Cretan hieroglyphs
Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history. , t ...
, found on artifacts of early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era, before Linear A
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Linear A
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in Minoan palaces, palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It evolved into Linear B, ...
, one of two currently undeciphered writing systems used in ancient Greece
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Linear B
Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...
(Creto-Mycenaean script), a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek
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Phaistos Disc
The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disc of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age ( second millennium BC), bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its purpose and its ori ...
, a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete
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Cypro-Minoan script
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC). The term "Cy ...
, an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age
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Cypriot script
The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet. It has been suggested that the script ...
, a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus
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Greek script
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as w ...
, the Greek alphabet used since the late 9th century BC
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