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S 112. KiNOSSIAN SCKIPT B IN MAINLAND GREECE—THE TllEEAN EVIDENCE;
Script B in Cyprus : Occurrence of Script A on Votive Figurine at
Samsoun, and Parallel Evidence of Adoption of Minoan Decora-
tive Motives on Hittite Pottery.
Non-occurrence of inscribed tablets in post-palatial deposits; Painted
inscription on L. M. Ill Sherd from Knossos ; Discovery of Stirrup-vases'
with painted inscriptions of Class B in 'House of Kadmos' at Thebes;
Similar from Orchomeuos, Tiryus, and Mycenae, and Eleusis; Those from
Thebes; Comparisons with Class B—solitary A sign; The Mainland
divergence from A tradition—remarkable phenomenon ; Probable that Class A
was previously known there; Ceramic parallels to intrusion of Class B;
Conventionalized vase types, dependent on L. M. II; Also at Tell-el-Amama ;
Short interval between fall of the Kuossian Palace and Tell-el-Amarna
relics; Close correspondence of Theban inscriptions with those of Kuossian
Palace; Similar arrangement and composition; Examples of identical
name-groups ; The same language, partly perhaps the same persons; Only
occasional adoption of Mainland elements—a few novel signs; the ' Gridiron';
Perhaps badge of Master Cook ; Rim of Jar from Asine with graffito decora-
tion partly suggested by characters of script B ; Found in Shrine of tradi-
tional Minoan class ; Late dale, c. 1200 B.C.; Late Minoan Script in Cyprus;
Comparisons with Linear Script B and Cypriote Greek; Residuum of
unknown elements—Earlier Cypriote linear class; Did ' Men of Keftiu'
propagate their script on Cilician side ? Relics there of an L. M. Ill Ceramic
style; Indications of Minoan contact with Pontic region; Two-stalkedL. M. I
ivy and ' oats ' motive on Vases from Samsoun (Amisos) &c.; Votive clay
ram from there with Minoan graffito inscriptions of Class A; Written
boustrophedon, in Hittite fashion.
Throughout the whole Palace area and in the more or less related Non-oc-
buildings, such as the Armoury and the Little Palace, where clay docu- o"",!"10
ments had occurred, no single tablet was found belonging to the Reoccupa- ^(bdin
tion stratum. Negative evidence of this kind is not conclusive, and, at post-pah-
Knossos at least, the contents of tombs, especially in the Zafer Papoura p'*sitse"
cemetery belonging to the period that immediately succeeded the final
catastrophe, of the old Palace, do not convey the idea of any abrupt break
m the general course of the local civilization. It is, therefore, likely enough
Script B in Cyprus : Occurrence of Script A on Votive Figurine at
Samsoun, and Parallel Evidence of Adoption of Minoan Decora-
tive Motives on Hittite Pottery.
Non-occurrence of inscribed tablets in post-palatial deposits; Painted
inscription on L. M. Ill Sherd from Knossos ; Discovery of Stirrup-vases'
with painted inscriptions of Class B in 'House of Kadmos' at Thebes;
Similar from Orchomeuos, Tiryus, and Mycenae, and Eleusis; Those from
Thebes; Comparisons with Class B—solitary A sign; The Mainland
divergence from A tradition—remarkable phenomenon ; Probable that Class A
was previously known there; Ceramic parallels to intrusion of Class B;
Conventionalized vase types, dependent on L. M. II; Also at Tell-el-Amama ;
Short interval between fall of the Kuossian Palace and Tell-el-Amarna
relics; Close correspondence of Theban inscriptions with those of Kuossian
Palace; Similar arrangement and composition; Examples of identical
name-groups ; The same language, partly perhaps the same persons; Only
occasional adoption of Mainland elements—a few novel signs; the ' Gridiron';
Perhaps badge of Master Cook ; Rim of Jar from Asine with graffito decora-
tion partly suggested by characters of script B ; Found in Shrine of tradi-
tional Minoan class ; Late dale, c. 1200 B.C.; Late Minoan Script in Cyprus;
Comparisons with Linear Script B and Cypriote Greek; Residuum of
unknown elements—Earlier Cypriote linear class; Did ' Men of Keftiu'
propagate their script on Cilician side ? Relics there of an L. M. Ill Ceramic
style; Indications of Minoan contact with Pontic region; Two-stalkedL. M. I
ivy and ' oats ' motive on Vases from Samsoun (Amisos) &c.; Votive clay
ram from there with Minoan graffito inscriptions of Class A; Written
boustrophedon, in Hittite fashion.
Throughout the whole Palace area and in the more or less related Non-oc-
buildings, such as the Armoury and the Little Palace, where clay docu- o"",!"10
ments had occurred, no single tablet was found belonging to the Reoccupa- ^(bdin
tion stratum. Negative evidence of this kind is not conclusive, and, at post-pah-
Knossos at least, the contents of tombs, especially in the Zafer Papoura p'*sitse"
cemetery belonging to the period that immediately succeeded the final
catastrophe, of the old Palace, do not convey the idea of any abrupt break
m the general course of the local civilization. It is, therefore, likely enough