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 84
63rc. 636. 63c. Fig. 63.—Yellow Steatite (Crete). On Fig. G4 the rams head is seen again associated with a bird andscorpion, the latter a favourite symbol on early Asianic and Syrian seal-stones. … 64(7. 64A. 64r. Fio. 64.—Yellow Steatite (Cretb). It seems probable that the long-necked stout-legged bird engraved onthis stone is intended for an ostrich, in which case we have another interestingindication of Southern commerce. The intimate contact already at this [342] PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHS AND…
Inscriptions, Linear A · Inscriptions, Greek · Civilization, Mycenaean
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