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FROM CRETE AND THE PELOPONNESE.
[313]
Fig. 35d. This form suggests a combination of solar and
lunar symbols.
64
X
Fig. 325 and cf. 39. Star of four rays. This symbol is
frequent on Cypriote cylinders.
65
u
Two small crescent-moons are seen on either side of the
mast of the vessel on Fig. 34«. They perhaps indicate
duration of time—months—as applied to the length of
a voyage.
Geographical or Topographical.
u
(a)
0)
66 A k Sk. A Figs. 35^, 255. Apparently variants of the
same symbol which seems to represent a
widely distributed pictograph for mountains
and valleys, and so country or land. On the
boss of Tarriktimme (Tarkondeimos) M = country (Sayce, Trans. Bill.
Arch. Vol. VII. Pt. II. (1887), p. 297 « segq.; and c£ Halevy, Bev. Si-
mitique, 1893, p. 55 seqq.). It is found again in Jerabis (Wright, op. cit. PI.
IX. J. II. 1. 1) and apparently on the monument near Bulgar Maden (R.
and H. Prehellenic Monuments, &c, PI. II. 1. 2) aa.
The Egyptian f\_y^] men = mountain is applied in the same way
as a determinative L--------1 for ' districts' and ' countries.' As
snut = granary, it reappears, with one or two heaps of com in
the middle, in the simple sense of a ' plot of ground.' The Accadian
symbol, again, signifying a plot of ground, exhibits a foim
closely parallel to the above.
And in this connexion a truly remarkable coincidence is observable
between the pictographic symbolism of old Chaldaea and that of the
Cretans of the Mycenaean period. The linear form of the Accadian Ut-tu
f^^f. shows a sun above the symbol of the ground with a plant growing
I^nI out of it. But on specimens of Mycenaean gems observed by me
in Eastern Crete, side by side with the vase for watering already referred to,
are seen symbolic or conventional representations of the plant growing out
of the ground, recalling the Accadian version almost totidem lineis M
on amygdaloid cornelian; Zero (near Praesos). pdtej on amygdaloid / v\
cornelian; Goulas. In another case the ewer *=> divides the two sym-
bols ^k tv/1 on an almond-shaped stone of the same character; Girapetra,
M.
FROM CRETE AND THE PELOPONNESE.
[313]
Fig. 35d. This form suggests a combination of solar and
lunar symbols.
64
X
Fig. 325 and cf. 39. Star of four rays. This symbol is
frequent on Cypriote cylinders.
65
u
Two small crescent-moons are seen on either side of the
mast of the vessel on Fig. 34«. They perhaps indicate
duration of time—months—as applied to the length of
a voyage.
Geographical or Topographical.
u
(a)
0)
66 A k Sk. A Figs. 35^, 255. Apparently variants of the
same symbol which seems to represent a
widely distributed pictograph for mountains
and valleys, and so country or land. On the
boss of Tarriktimme (Tarkondeimos) M = country (Sayce, Trans. Bill.
Arch. Vol. VII. Pt. II. (1887), p. 297 « segq.; and c£ Halevy, Bev. Si-
mitique, 1893, p. 55 seqq.). It is found again in Jerabis (Wright, op. cit. PI.
IX. J. II. 1. 1) and apparently on the monument near Bulgar Maden (R.
and H. Prehellenic Monuments, &c, PI. II. 1. 2) aa.
The Egyptian f\_y^] men = mountain is applied in the same way
as a determinative L--------1 for ' districts' and ' countries.' As
snut = granary, it reappears, with one or two heaps of com in
the middle, in the simple sense of a ' plot of ground.' The Accadian
symbol, again, signifying a plot of ground, exhibits a foim
closely parallel to the above.
And in this connexion a truly remarkable coincidence is observable
between the pictographic symbolism of old Chaldaea and that of the
Cretans of the Mycenaean period. The linear form of the Accadian Ut-tu
f^^f. shows a sun above the symbol of the ground with a plant growing
I^nI out of it. But on specimens of Mycenaean gems observed by me
in Eastern Crete, side by side with the vase for watering already referred to,
are seen symbolic or conventional representations of the plant growing out
of the ground, recalling the Accadian version almost totidem lineis M
on amygdaloid cornelian; Zero (near Praesos). pdtej on amygdaloid / v\
cornelian; Goulas. In another case the ewer *=> divides the two sym-
bols ^k tv/1 on an almond-shaped stone of the same character; Girapetra,
M.