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LINEAR SCRIPT OF CLASS A 35
characteristic polychrome ware of the so-called ' Kamares' class were found on that Minoan
site, and the beautiful wall-painting depicting flying-fish amid the sea spray, so closely j" Metot
paralleled by Knossian designs, may be taken to show that Minoan artists were actually
employed by the Lords of Melos.
The per contra side of this intercourse is supplied by the abundant remains of
imported vessels presenting painted designs of birds in a characteristic Melian style'
which occur in the Palace deposits already referred to as produced by the catastrophe
of the Middle Minoan Palace. The Temple Repositories alone produced at least
a dozen of these large vessels, which may have contained some choice brand of Meiian Minoan
wine. It was, therefore, particularly interesting to find on the handles of several of ^P-L
these imported vases, as well as on examples from Phylakopi itself, of the same or of Melos.
V T-7 ~f (with male suffix)
Y°fl
ft?
Inscription on
Melian Cup.
\ (with female suffix)
(signature on sealing)
F;g. 17. Sign groups of Class B indicating male and
female personal names.
other contemporary forms,2 incised marks, a whole series of which correspond with indication
the Cretan linear characters. This fact alone distinguishes the signs from mere aame ian.
personal marks due to the caprice of the individual potter, but a still fuller proof that guage was
vessel. On the base of a plain black-faced bowl belonging approximately to the same
age, are incised two signs of the Minoan class (Fig. 16). In their general outlines
they are common to both the linear scripts A and B. But the ' cup' sign with a stroke
across its handle appears in a shape characteristic of the linear Class A.s
' It is highly interesting thus to find that the collocation of these two charac-
ters, presumably forming a word, recurs on tablets belonging to both classes of the
linear script. It clearly indicates that the language in both cases was the same. In
1 A' bird vase' of similar form and in its designs fitting was found in the Temple Repositories or in the archeo-
closely on to the Melian class referred to in the text, was logical stratum of Knossos, to which it belongs,
found in Grave VI of the Akropolis at Mycenae (Schuch- ' Excavations atPhylakopi, pp. 177 seqq.: ' The Pottery
hardt, ScMiemann's Excavations, p. 371, Fig. 278). It Marks,' C. C. Edgar and A. j. Evans,
may, however, represent some local fabric of a somewhat 3 See my observations on the 'Significance of the
later dale, since it was associated in this grave with a Pottery Marks of Phylakopi', op. cit., pp. 183, 184. The
characteristic ewer of the First Late Minoan style {op. figures here given are reproduced from this work,
cit., p. 270, Fig. 277). Nothing so late as this latter vessel
characteristic polychrome ware of the so-called ' Kamares' class were found on that Minoan
site, and the beautiful wall-painting depicting flying-fish amid the sea spray, so closely j" Metot
paralleled by Knossian designs, may be taken to show that Minoan artists were actually
employed by the Lords of Melos.
The per contra side of this intercourse is supplied by the abundant remains of
imported vessels presenting painted designs of birds in a characteristic Melian style'
which occur in the Palace deposits already referred to as produced by the catastrophe
of the Middle Minoan Palace. The Temple Repositories alone produced at least
a dozen of these large vessels, which may have contained some choice brand of Meiian Minoan
wine. It was, therefore, particularly interesting to find on the handles of several of ^P-L
these imported vases, as well as on examples from Phylakopi itself, of the same or of Melos.
V T-7 ~f (with male suffix)
Y°fl
ft?
Inscription on
Melian Cup.
\ (with female suffix)
(signature on sealing)
F;g. 17. Sign groups of Class B indicating male and
female personal names.
other contemporary forms,2 incised marks, a whole series of which correspond with indication
the Cretan linear characters. This fact alone distinguishes the signs from mere aame ian.
personal marks due to the caprice of the individual potter, but a still fuller proof that guage was
vessel. On the base of a plain black-faced bowl belonging approximately to the same
age, are incised two signs of the Minoan class (Fig. 16). In their general outlines
they are common to both the linear scripts A and B. But the ' cup' sign with a stroke
across its handle appears in a shape characteristic of the linear Class A.s
' It is highly interesting thus to find that the collocation of these two charac-
ters, presumably forming a word, recurs on tablets belonging to both classes of the
linear script. It clearly indicates that the language in both cases was the same. In
1 A' bird vase' of similar form and in its designs fitting was found in the Temple Repositories or in the archeo-
closely on to the Melian class referred to in the text, was logical stratum of Knossos, to which it belongs,
found in Grave VI of the Akropolis at Mycenae (Schuch- ' Excavations atPhylakopi, pp. 177 seqq.: ' The Pottery
hardt, ScMiemann's Excavations, p. 371, Fig. 278). It Marks,' C. C. Edgar and A. j. Evans,
may, however, represent some local fabric of a somewhat 3 See my observations on the 'Significance of the
later dale, since it was associated in this grave with a Pottery Marks of Phylakopi', op. cit., pp. 183, 184. The
characteristic ewer of the First Late Minoan style {op. figures here given are reproduced from this work,
cit., p. 270, Fig. 277). Nothing so late as this latter vessel