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 71
ype as that represented in Fig. 19a, but of earlier technique thanthe conventionally pictographic class. The central design on d reproduces theprincipal motive of the scarab above it, and the two signs on / are simplyincomplete and rude transcriptions of the very characteristic scrolls onc.^^ The… … Fig. 50 (c>ril.-ir(;(>il 2 diams.) taking over of the decorative designs of Twelfth Dynasty scarabs on tothese early Cretan stones is of capital importance in the history of Europeanart. In the examples already given will be found simple examples of theborrowing at this early period—c. 2500…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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