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CATALOGUE OF HIEROGLYPHIC SIGNS 199
(Class A); d, P. 22a; e, P. 18a; / P. 71a, &c.; g, P. 23a; h, P. 58b, &c.; k,
P. 62 b, &c.; /, P. 104 b; m, P. 82 a, 107 c, &c.; n, P. noe.
lo H
m
Type B. a, P. 19 a, 30 a; b, P. 20 a; c, P. 59 a.
The ' gate' sign, which may also signify an ' enclosure' generally, is one of the most
constantly recurring. It is divided into two distinct classes according as the bars are
horizontal (A) or vertical (B). That this latter type refers to the same object appears
from the indifferent use of both in an identical position in the same frequently
repeated formula in which this sign is coupled with the human leg and the Y. See
below, pp. 237, 261.
It seems to enter into official titles and to convey the ideographic sense of keeper
or guardian. In one case it is coupled with a pig (P. 22 a). In certain formulas it is
attached to the sacred double axe (cf. P. 29 d and 59 a), and in these and other
cases is also associated with the ' cross' sign.
The prevailing comparisons suggested by this character are with the Semitic
chith1 and hi and the Greek eta (see p. 90). It is a noteworthy fact that the four-barred
Boeotian type of eta points to a prototype like Type A c-h above (see Picts., p. 92 [361]),
and that no trace of this four-barred version is to be found in the Semitic series.
The three- and four-barred types of this sign survive into both the later linear
classes.
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45. This sign seems to be rather a hurdle or section of a fence, and may in its origin
be a differentiation of the preceding, with which it is closely allied. It is found in
company with the ' human bust' (No. 3) on the clay bar P. 103 a.
The true analogies of this type seem to be with the Semitic chith, which, if we may
judge from an Arabic word of similar form, signifies a 'fence'.2 The Greek H (§ta)
represents the final simplification of the Semitic letter. This sign survives in both the
Cretan linear classes.
The simple linear H, however, has a very early tradition in Crete, since it occurs
on the Phaestos whorl (P. L. 3 b).
1 See above, p. 86, and p. 87, Table V. ! See above, p. 90.
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(Class A); d, P. 22a; e, P. 18a; / P. 71a, &c.; g, P. 23a; h, P. 58b, &c.; k,
P. 62 b, &c.; /, P. 104 b; m, P. 82 a, 107 c, &c.; n, P. noe.
lo H
m
Type B. a, P. 19 a, 30 a; b, P. 20 a; c, P. 59 a.
The ' gate' sign, which may also signify an ' enclosure' generally, is one of the most
constantly recurring. It is divided into two distinct classes according as the bars are
horizontal (A) or vertical (B). That this latter type refers to the same object appears
from the indifferent use of both in an identical position in the same frequently
repeated formula in which this sign is coupled with the human leg and the Y. See
below, pp. 237, 261.
It seems to enter into official titles and to convey the ideographic sense of keeper
or guardian. In one case it is coupled with a pig (P. 22 a). In certain formulas it is
attached to the sacred double axe (cf. P. 29 d and 59 a), and in these and other
cases is also associated with the ' cross' sign.
The prevailing comparisons suggested by this character are with the Semitic
chith1 and hi and the Greek eta (see p. 90). It is a noteworthy fact that the four-barred
Boeotian type of eta points to a prototype like Type A c-h above (see Picts., p. 92 [361]),
and that no trace of this four-barred version is to be found in the Semitic series.
The three- and four-barred types of this sign survive into both the later linear
classes.
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45. This sign seems to be rather a hurdle or section of a fence, and may in its origin
be a differentiation of the preceding, with which it is closely allied. It is found in
company with the ' human bust' (No. 3) on the clay bar P. 103 a.
The true analogies of this type seem to be with the Semitic chith, which, if we may
judge from an Arabic word of similar form, signifies a 'fence'.2 The Greek H (§ta)
represents the final simplification of the Semitic letter. This sign survives in both the
Cretan linear classes.
The simple linear H, however, has a very early tradition in Crete, since it occurs
on the Phaestos whorl (P. L. 3 b).
1 See above, p. 86, and p. 87, Table V. ! See above, p. 90.
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