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 63
ying over them or poising on their branchesare seen besiilo a tank or stream containingfish. Only here the forms of the leaves arediflereut from those of the lotos or papyrusseen on the Egyptian models. E 2 [.■520] PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHS AND SCRIPT 51 floral forms, are tlie animating principle of a… … Fig. 43. Fig. 44. Fig. 45. In view of these comparisons it occurred to me that the symbol connectedabove with the palmette—belonging ex hypotliesi to a form of Mycenaeanceiling—might have been a simple kind of stencilling plate known as a template, such as is still in use among decorators, and that…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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