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)

46 FROM CRETE AND THE PELOPONNESE. [315]

75 %^ Fig. 34$. A certain analogy is presented by the Hittite sign

\=^]-------1 Hainath (Wright, op. cit. PI. I. H. II. 1. 2),

^^ Jerabis (op. cit. PL VIII. B. 1. 5), and on the 'Niobe' (Ed.
Gollob. in op. cit. PI. XXII.).

76 ^^^ Fig. 186. On the steatite relief (Fig. 186); possibly a
conventionalized form of No. 50.

U

77 V / Fig. 26a.

78 /m^ Fig. 25a. Perhaps a variant of No. 69.

s

79 S*\ Fig. 38c. This symbol presents a certain resemblance to the
^ y Hittite forms (^\ Hamath (Wright, op. cit. PL I. 1. 1, PL

II. H. III. 1.1, PL IV. H. V. I. 1); (C J) Jerabis (op. cit. PL VIII. J. I. A. 1. 3,

B. 1. 2); (~\ Bulgar Maden (R. and H. op. cit. PL II. 1. 3); (^) Gurun
(op. cit. PL IV. 1).

80 t^Ji Fig. 22a. This recalls the Egyptian V = ' skein of thread/

0 ingj>

to turn
Ices, the tied up bundle /^ = ' to bury.' On the Hittite
silver seal procured at Bor, near Tyana (Ramsay and Hogarth, Prehcllenic
Monuments of Cappadocia, p. 17, Fig. 2), occurs the sign ^> identical with
the Cretan. v^

^^ the determinative for ' linen,' ' bind- U ing,' &c. Compare,
V M too, the twisted cord Q sen — ' to turn back,' and ,/

A ='to bury.' On the Hittite 0

SI ^a^j. -,r.-.T?^ Figs. 35c, 35$.

(a) (6)

82 ^V Fig. 32c. This symbol, if rightly completed, recalls the

*--^^^\ Egyptian XI__J!>n = Net, which serves especially to

write the name of Neith the Goddess of Sais; also

OCZDO = at, and its abbreviated form, sometimes described as a

'twisted cord,'