Evans, Arthur J.: Cretan pictographs and prae-Phoenician script with an account of a sepulchral deposit at Hagios Onuphrios near Phaestos in its relation to primitive Cretan (London, 1895)

NOTE.

The first of these papers is reprinted, by permission, from the Hellenic
Journal (Vol. xiv. Pt. II. 1895) with some slight additions and corrections.
The account of the Hagios Onuphrios deposit and its bearings on the
prehistoric culture of the Aegean world is now issued for the first time.
Already in 1893, on the occasion of my paper on 'A Mycenaean Treasure
from Aegina' I ventured to announce to the Hellenic Society that I had found
what I believed to be a clue to the existence of a system of picture-writing in the
Greek lands. The result of my explorations in Crete during the spring of 1894
was not only to confirm this discovery as regards the ' pictographic' system but to
add distinct evidence of the existence in the island at a very early period of a
linear system of writing standing in a certain relation to the pictorial. A
summary report of the results of my researches in Crete in the spring of 1894
was sent by me to the Athenaeum from Candia on April 25 of last year, and
appeared in that Journal on June 23. The Times of Aug. 29 published a further
account of my Cretan discoveries, written by me at the request of the Editor,
and I also read a paper on the subject in the Anthropological Section of the
British Association, of which reports appeared in the Academy and other papers.
On that occasion I called attention for the first time to certain archaeological
evidence connecting the Philistines with Mycenaean Crete. In the second paper
of this book and the supplement are incorporated some further materials obtained
by me during another Cretan journey undertaken this spring.