| The Orientalist scholar Bedrich Hrozny was one of the foremost scholars of pre-alphabetic writing systems. In reading Creto-Mycenaean script he used combinative-comparative techniques previously tested in the reading of Hittite and other Asian scripts. Doubt is cast on the accuracy of his readings, on the basis of more general knowledge about Creto-Mycenaean civilization mapped out with the aid of archaeological finds and material witnesses left by classical antiquity. The paper concludes by proposing certain other methods to be followed when reading pre-Hellenic written monuments. |