Trojan script

The Trojan script is a series of signs of unknown origin found on vessels from Troy excavated by Heinrich Schliemann's expedition.

[2][3] While excavating Troy,[clarification needed] Heinrich Schliemann unearthed various objects he believed to depict a Trojan script.

[4] He was especially interested in the text on the vase, which, by his account, contained a letter similar to the modern "P."[4] Schliemann initially attempted to translate the inscriptions based on the Cypriot syllabary.

[2] Émile-Louis Burnouf, a leading orientalist, racialist, and friend of Schliemann during the time, believed these inscriptions represented an ancient Graeco-Asiatic alphabet.

Professor Martin Haug, another contemporary scholar, argued that the inscriptions were connected to the Phoenician alphabet and the Cypriot syllabary.

British Assyriologist Archibald Sayce attempted to read the translation utilizing more recent advancements in academic understanding of the Cypriot syllabary.

[citation needed] Regardless of any similarities the Trojan symbols have with Linear B, those from Troy II date from about a thousand years before the development of that script.