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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE POTTERY MARK«.
183
$ 3.—Signs of Linear Script.
Of all the signs engraved on the Melian pottery the most important
are the pair of characters (Fig. 155) at the base of a vessel of polished
Fl«. 155.
black wäre. The first of these signs, a cup with a line drawn across the
handle, is of a most distinctive form, and it recurs as one of the most
common characters of the linear inscriptions on the Cnossian tablets. The
second character also forma part of the same linear series.
More than this, the two characters are fonnd frequently together—
though written in that case froin left to right instead of from right to left
as here—in several sign-groüps on the Cnossian tablets, which from the
determinative Man-sign placed after them can be almost certainly identified
with names of persons. It occurs moreover with characteristic female
terminations and seems to have entered into the composition of bofch mens
and women's names.
Thus we have (Fig. 156')
(with male suffix)
9^ 0 §
Pia. 156.
On the other hand the two characters in Fig. 157 are found by
Fl.:. 157.
183
$ 3.—Signs of Linear Script.
Of all the signs engraved on the Melian pottery the most important
are the pair of characters (Fig. 155) at the base of a vessel of polished
Fl«. 155.
black wäre. The first of these signs, a cup with a line drawn across the
handle, is of a most distinctive form, and it recurs as one of the most
common characters of the linear inscriptions on the Cnossian tablets. The
second character also forma part of the same linear series.
More than this, the two characters are fonnd frequently together—
though written in that case froin left to right instead of from right to left
as here—in several sign-groüps on the Cnossian tablets, which from the
determinative Man-sign placed after them can be almost certainly identified
with names of persons. It occurs moreover with characteristic female
terminations and seems to have entered into the composition of bofch mens
and women's names.
Thus we have (Fig. 156')
(with male suffix)
9^ 0 §
Pia. 156.
On the other hand the two characters in Fig. 157 are found by
Fl.:. 157.