DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.805#0048
[308] PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHS AND SCRIPT 39
Troad to the Aegean Islands and the mainland of Greece. They occur at
Hissarlik, and in the early cist-graves of Amorgos of prae-Mycenaean date, and
I found part of the beaked spout of one of equally early fabric on the site
of Praesos. Vases of this form are seen on the most primitive class,of
Cretan engraved gems, going back to the third millennium B.C. (see
p. 332), and continue ■— taking at times a more metallic form — into
the Mycenaean period. On two Vaphio gems ('E$. 'Ap%. 1890, PL X. 35
36) a closely allied prochmis is seen in the hands of the mysterious beast-
headed daemons of Mycenaean art, who in one case are engaged in watering
nurseling palm-trees. Another representation of the same form of vase
occurs above two bulls in the field of a gem from Tomb 27 of the lower
town of Mycenae ('E0. 'APX. 1888, PL X. 24).
30 *^^ Fig. 40. This symbol belongs to the same class as the above.
1
31 V' I / Fig. 40. Possibly some kind of vessel.
X
Maeine Subjects.
Figs. 34a, 28a. The first of these vessels
is accompanied with two crescents, one on
either side of the mast—perhaps a sign of
time as applied to the duration of a voyage
(see below, No. 65). One ship has seven
oars visible, the other six. In form these vessels show a great resemblance
to those which appear as the principal type on a class of Mycenaean lentoid
gems, specimens of which are found in Crete. One of these in my possession
shows fifteen oars and a double rudder, and perhaps an upper row of oars.
The double end of the first example—like an open beak—may recall the
swan-headed ships of the confederate invaders of Egypt' from the middle of
the sea' in Rameses Ill's time as seen on the frescoes of Medinet Habou. In
the present case, however, no yards are visible.
33 XggdSgfe, Fig, 33a. Apparently a tunny-fish: the hatched-work
w^^^B^ behind may indicate a net. Fish as hieroglyphic symbols
are common to Egypt and Chaldaea. It looks as if tunny-fisheries had
existed off the Cretan coast in Mycenaean times. The well-known gem with a
fisherman in the British Museum (Gem Catalogue, 80, PL A) may refer to the
same industry; and tunny-fish occur on two more Cretan gems of Mycenaean
date in the same collection. A fish of the same type occurs as a symbol
on Cypriote cylinders (cf. Salaminia, PL XIV. 48).
Troad to the Aegean Islands and the mainland of Greece. They occur at
Hissarlik, and in the early cist-graves of Amorgos of prae-Mycenaean date, and
I found part of the beaked spout of one of equally early fabric on the site
of Praesos. Vases of this form are seen on the most primitive class,of
Cretan engraved gems, going back to the third millennium B.C. (see
p. 332), and continue ■— taking at times a more metallic form — into
the Mycenaean period. On two Vaphio gems ('E$. 'Ap%. 1890, PL X. 35
36) a closely allied prochmis is seen in the hands of the mysterious beast-
headed daemons of Mycenaean art, who in one case are engaged in watering
nurseling palm-trees. Another representation of the same form of vase
occurs above two bulls in the field of a gem from Tomb 27 of the lower
town of Mycenae ('E0. 'APX. 1888, PL X. 24).
30 *^^ Fig. 40. This symbol belongs to the same class as the above.
1
31 V' I / Fig. 40. Possibly some kind of vessel.
X
Maeine Subjects.
Figs. 34a, 28a. The first of these vessels
is accompanied with two crescents, one on
either side of the mast—perhaps a sign of
time as applied to the duration of a voyage
(see below, No. 65). One ship has seven
oars visible, the other six. In form these vessels show a great resemblance
to those which appear as the principal type on a class of Mycenaean lentoid
gems, specimens of which are found in Crete. One of these in my possession
shows fifteen oars and a double rudder, and perhaps an upper row of oars.
The double end of the first example—like an open beak—may recall the
swan-headed ships of the confederate invaders of Egypt' from the middle of
the sea' in Rameses Ill's time as seen on the frescoes of Medinet Habou. In
the present case, however, no yards are visible.
33 XggdSgfe, Fig, 33a. Apparently a tunny-fish: the hatched-work
w^^^B^ behind may indicate a net. Fish as hieroglyphic symbols
are common to Egypt and Chaldaea. It looks as if tunny-fisheries had
existed off the Cretan coast in Mycenaean times. The well-known gem with a
fisherman in the British Museum (Gem Catalogue, 80, PL A) may refer to the
same industry; and tunny-fish occur on two more Cretan gems of Mycenaean
date in the same collection. A fish of the same type occurs as a symbol
on Cypriote cylinders (cf. Salaminia, PL XIV. 48).