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)

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FROM CRETE AND THE PELOPONNESE.

Glass V.
Stones of Ordinary Mycenaean Type.

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Fig. 39.

A. (Fig. 39).—From impression taken by Professor Sayce at Athens.
This form of gem was in use for the besils of rings in Mycenaean times.

Fig. 40.

B. (Fig. 40).—Brown steatite. Knosos. This and the following are
ordinary types of perforated lentoid bead but of very early fabric.

Fig. 41.
0, (Fig. 41).—Black steatite. Messara district.