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 135
FlO, 181.—Cave, PSTOHBO; Steatite ($ diani.). procured is as yet a mystery, but from its constant employment it seemsprobable that it exists in great masses in the island. The material of Fig. 123 THE HAGTOS ONUPHRIOS DEPOSIT. 112 is less easily definable; its harder texture and the porphyritic… … Fro. 122.— Chersonesos ; Limestone Conglomerate (§ diam.). It is evident with regard to the technique that in most cases the vaseshave been turned, and it looks as if in Crete the use of the wheel forstone vases may have preceded its application to clay. It is a significantfact that the clay…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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