c. 1500 BCE

Cypro-Minoan script and the Enkomi tablet

The Cypro-Minoan syllabary, derived from Linear A, is used on Cyprus and elsewhere from c. 1550 to 1050 BCE. About 250 inscribed objects survive. The longest early text is a clay tablet found at Enkomi in 1955, c. 1500. It is undeciphered.