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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 148

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been found at Tel Nebesheh. These were derived from tombsapparently belonging to mercenaries brought over by Psamtik I. when hesettled Carians and Jonians at Defenneh.39 Professor Petrie describes thetombs in question as Cypriote but no bronze objects of the kind seem to beknown in Cyprus. From the… … Kir.. 139.— Doi iii-K-liUNrKD Hkonze Speak, Piiaf.stos. (< Li- car). forked like the lower ends of Egyptian sceptres. The existence of a double-pointed spear or javelin in Crete and Lycaonia, coupled with the Carianconnexion in which the Tel Nebesheh objects stand, makes it just possiblehowever…

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