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 26
. The naturalinference from this is that the signs were engraved on the blocks previous totheir insertion in the walls of the building. The incised marks on the slabs of the Knosian building do not anylonger stand alone. Professor Halbherr writes to me from Candia, that hehas observed, fixed into a… … Fig. 10.—Block at Phaestos with Engraved Signs. hieroglyphic and linear series of the seals.^ He observes of this sign thatnot only from its regularity, but from the depth of the groove, it was in hisjudgment executed with a chisel. This stone lies in the neighbourhood of aspot where a very…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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