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A. J. Evans
they appear on the clay tablets of the succeeding Palace Period. In other
words they represent a distinctive form of linear writing that was in use
towards the conclusion of the first Period of the Later Palace at Knossos.
The evidence derived from the present deposit would in itself have
been too limited to supply a full knowledge of the system of linear script
with which we have here to deal. But a comparative study of the materials
discovered in other parts of the island happily enables us to make good
the deficiency. The form of certain typical characters here found, the
system of numeration, the shape of the tablet itself and of the sealed disks,
correspond, in fact, with those of the clay archives recently discovered by
Fig. 27 a and b.—Inscribed Clay Tablet [Linear Script Class a] from Temple
Repository (-]).
the Italian Mission in the small Palace or Royal Villa of Hagia Triada
near Phaestos.1 Other more isolated discoveries further show that this
early system of linear script—which may be conveniently termed Class A
as opposed to Class B of the latest Palace Period at Knossos—had a wide
extension in the island. An inscribed clay tablet found by the British
School at Palaikastro 2 belongs to the same class, as also the characters on
1 Federigo Halbherr, ' Resti etc. scoperti a Haghia Triada. Rapporto sulle ricerche del 1902.'
(Mon. Antichi xiii.), p. 21 seqq. Further discoveries of tablets presenting the same characters were
made during 1903, which by the great courtesy of Professor Halbherr I have been allowed to study.
2 A photograph of this has been kindly supplied me by Mr. Bosanquet, and I have also had
the opportunity of studying the original at Candia.
A. J. Evans
they appear on the clay tablets of the succeeding Palace Period. In other
words they represent a distinctive form of linear writing that was in use
towards the conclusion of the first Period of the Later Palace at Knossos.
The evidence derived from the present deposit would in itself have
been too limited to supply a full knowledge of the system of linear script
with which we have here to deal. But a comparative study of the materials
discovered in other parts of the island happily enables us to make good
the deficiency. The form of certain typical characters here found, the
system of numeration, the shape of the tablet itself and of the sealed disks,
correspond, in fact, with those of the clay archives recently discovered by
Fig. 27 a and b.—Inscribed Clay Tablet [Linear Script Class a] from Temple
Repository (-]).
the Italian Mission in the small Palace or Royal Villa of Hagia Triada
near Phaestos.1 Other more isolated discoveries further show that this
early system of linear script—which may be conveniently termed Class A
as opposed to Class B of the latest Palace Period at Knossos—had a wide
extension in the island. An inscribed clay tablet found by the British
School at Palaikastro 2 belongs to the same class, as also the characters on
1 Federigo Halbherr, ' Resti etc. scoperti a Haghia Triada. Rapporto sulle ricerche del 1902.'
(Mon. Antichi xiii.), p. 21 seqq. Further discoveries of tablets presenting the same characters were
made during 1903, which by the great courtesy of Professor Halbherr I have been allowed to study.
2 A photograph of this has been kindly supplied me by Mr. Bosanquet, and I have also had
the opportunity of studying the original at Candia.