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Cypro-Minoan syllabary
The Cypro-Minoan syllabary is an undeciphered script used on Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age, from about 1550 to 1050 BCE. It developed from Linear A of Minoan Crete and is known from clay tablets, clay balls and inscribed objects found at Enkomi and other sites, as well as at Ugarit in Syria. It was the ancestor of the Cypriot syllabary later used to write Greek on the island.
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