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 77
pposition might explain some of the phenomena withwhich we have to deal, but in any case it must be allowed that there is adistinctly local character about many of these early Cretan stones. The primi-tive seal-stones of the triangular form described are, as we have seen, at homein Crete. That… … points to some such diffusion, Smyrna being a well-known gathering point ofAegean finds. On the other hand these stones do not seem to be foundon the mainland of Asia Minor. Certain three-sided stones of a peculiar gabled-shaped class are indeed widely diffused in Cilicia and Cappadocia, butthey…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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