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 75
a remarkableparallelism with those on certain perforated disk-like stones found inthe island. Some of them are very rude and apparently go back beyond theperiod of Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian influence. The existence of this most primitive class of triangular seal-stones is ofspecial importance to our… … Fig. 52i. horn-like figures, are esseniially the same as those that we find conven-tionalized and grouped together on the later series. Amongst the ceramicforms we may even see traces of the earlier stages out of which the moreadvanced types, such as the beaked ocnochoe of Mycenaean times,…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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