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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group of linear characters (Fig. 74) on a foot-shaped seal of black steatite
obtained by Mr. Greville Chester in Lower Egypt, and now in the Ashmolean
Museum at Oxford. The sigus on this stone seem to belong to the same
system as the Cretan.

Fig. 74.—Black Steatite Seal (Lower Egypt).

The following table of comparisons (I.) shows the Cretan and other
Aegean linear forms and the kindred signs of the Cypriote and Egyptian
series.

The following are the sources from which the signs indicated in the
first and fourth columns of the accompanying Table (I.) are derived.

1.—Seal-stone, Knosos.

2.—Cretan vases, Goulas and Prodromos Botzano.

3.—(«) Seal-stone, Province of Siteia. (6) Perforated steatite, Siphnos.
A common pictographic symbol is placed in brackets.

4.—Vase, Goulas. Clay pendant, Cave of Idaean Zeus. Amphora-
handle, Tholos tomb, Menidi.

5.—Seal-stone, Praesos.

6.—(a) Steatite whorl, Phaestos; (b) Seal-stone, Praesos.

7.—Seal-stones, Knosos and Province of Siteia.

8.—Seal-stone, Praesos.

9.—Vase, Goulas.
10.—Seal-stone, Province of Siteia.
11.'—-Block of Mycenaean building, KnSsos.
12.—Block of Mycenaean building, Knosos.

13.—Perforated steatite, Siphnos. Handle of stone-vase, from ruined
house, Akropolis, Mycenae.
14.—-Vase, Goulas.

15.—Steatite pendant, early cist-grave, Arbi.
16.—Steatite whorl, Phaestos.

17.—(a) Perforated disk, Knosos. (6) Early sepulchral deposit, Phaestos.
18.—Seal-stone, Knosos.
19.-—Block of Mycenaean building, Knosos.

20.—Amethyst intaglio, Mycenaean style, representing eagle: Knosos.
21.—Whorl, Phaestos.