Cretan pictographs and prae-Phoenician script : with an account of a sepulchral deposit at Hagios Onuphrios near Phaestos in its relation to primitive Cretan and Aegean culture (1895)
Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 · London : B. Quaritch ; New York : G. P. Putnam's · leaf 129
the Amorgan Period, such as arc usually found in the prae-Mycenaeandeposits of the Aegean islands, in two particulars. The stone-ware such asis discovered for instance in the early tombs of Naxos and Amorgos isgenerally of white, apparently Parian, marble. The Cretan vessels are offar more varied… … Fig. 110.—Phaestos ; Variegated Limestone (J diam.). Massive pots of serpentine and diorite supported by pedestals oflimestone or baked clay, forming incense altars, appear in Egyptian tombsfrom the time of the Fourth Dynasty (Fig. Ill), and several of these datingfrom the Fourth to the Sixth…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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