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 65
E already obtained in Fig. 46, a palmette is formedby reversing the template as in Fig. 46c, and so on in the other rhombi. Thecurving stems and cress lines are then filled in as in the Goulas gem (Fig. 44),the result being that shown in PI. XII. Observation.—In order to fit the design into a… … Fig. 48. The complete design as restored in Plate XII. by the aid of thetemplate symbol may well have decorated the ceiling of a palace hall orprincely sepulchral chamber in the great Mycenaean city where the gem wasfound which suggested this practical application of the pictograph. Thetypical…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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