Eteocypriot

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• entity Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Early Cypriot writing and language distinctions

  Prevents conflation with Eteocypriot.

• date assertion Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertion
  informs · contextualizes · Early Cypriot writing and language distinctions

  Prevents conflation with Eteocypriot.

• claim Eteocypriot is a modern label for an undeciphered first-millennium language attested principally at Amathus and should not be projected automatically onto the Late Bronze Age Cy…
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  supports · supports · Definition, corpus and terminology

  Defines the later language evidence and limits.

• 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 · Eteocypriot terminology and evidence

  Separates language label from ethnic essentialism.