Cretan pictographs and prae-Phoenician script. With an account of a sepulchral deposit at Hagios Onuphrios near Phaestos in its relation primitive Cretan and Aegean culture (1895)
Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 · London : B. Quaritch; New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 148
been found at Tel Nebesheh. These were derived from tombsapparently belonging to mercenaries brought over by Psamtik I. when hesettled Carians and lonians at Defenneh.* Professor Petrie describes thetombs in question as Cypriote but no bronze objects of the kind seem to beknown in Cyprus. From the… … Fig, 139.—DuuiiLE-Poi.NTED Bi;onze Speae, Phaestos, (^Linear). forked like the lower ends of Egyptian sceptres. The existence of a double-pointed spear or javelin in Crete and Lycaonia, coupled with the Carianconnexion in which tlie Tel Nebesheh objects stand, makes it just possiblehowever that the…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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