Cypriot syllable pe

It is the Cypriot syllabary sign conventionally transliterated pe.

Here, pe is the Latin-letter label for a sign that writes one open consonant-vowel syllable, not a standalone word. Cypriot spelling splits consonant clusters across syllable signs and uses signs from the e-series—the group paired with the vowel conventionally written e—to spell word-final consonants.

The earliest known syllabic evidence is an 11th-century BCE group of incised bronze obeloi, or spits, from Palaepaphos-Skales. The main surviving corpus spans the 8th to 3rd/2nd centuries BCE. The script developed from the earlier Cypro-Minoan tradition, which is related to Linear B, and was used for Arcado-Cypriot Greek, a local Greek variety, and, around Amathus, Eteocypriot, another language of the island. Most surviving texts are stone dedications or grave inscriptions; others appear on pottery and metal. It disappeared during the Hellenistic period as alphabetic Greek took over.

Why does 𐠟 show as a box?

An empty box means your font lacks this character’s glyph.

Fonts supply the drawn shape, so a font without Cypriot Syllabary coverage may show an empty square. The common Cypriot syllabary is usually written right to left; the Paphian syllabary of southwest Cyprus is usually written left to right. Direction changes the page layout, not the sign’s syllabic value.