Cypriot Syllabary

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Oxford University Press

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• event Final Late Bronze and Early Iron Cypro-Minoan attestations
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · First-millennium syllabary

  Frames the later system without claiming direct continuity.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · First-millennium syllabary

  Frames the later system without claiming direct continuity.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · First-millennium syllabary

  Frames the later system without claiming direct continuity.

• date assertion Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · dates · Opheltas chronology discussion

  Earlier possible range retained because the burial and object chronology have been placed differently in scholarship.

• property Direct language attestation
  informs · defines property · Early Greek syllabic evidence

  Provides cautious Greek case.

• relationship Palaepaphos-Skales — located within research landscape — Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic context · Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription

  Supports cautious language attribution.

• entity Palaepaphos-Skales
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  informs · provides epigraphic context · Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription

  Supports cautious language attribution.

• date assertion Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertion
  informs · provides epigraphic context · Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription

  Supports cautious language attribution.

• event Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• date assertion Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• relationship Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — occurred at or affected — Palaepaphos-Skales
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• relationship Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — concerns — Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides epigraphic synthesis · Early syllabic Greek and Opheltas

  Supports the language reading and cautions.

• date assertion Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertion
  informs · provides linguistic interpretation · Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription

  Supports cautious reading.

• entity Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides linguistic interpretation · Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription

  Supports cautious reading.

• property assignment Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales — has evidence classification — Direct language attestation
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · supports assignment · Possible early Greek inscription

  The inscription is commonly read as Greek Opheltas, but its exact date and signary classification are debated.

• claim The Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales is a leading candidate for the earliest direct Greek-language inscription on Cyprus.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports · Opheltas and early Greek syllabic writing

  Provides the linguistic synthesis.

• claim Use of a script does not by itself establish the writer's ethnicity, first language, ancestry, or political allegiance.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  supports · supports caution · Greek-language syllabic adaptation

  Shows one script family used across changing language contexts.