Evans, Arthur J.: Scripta minoa: the written documents of minoan Crete with special reference to the archives of Knossos (Band 1): The hieroglyphic and primitive linear classes (Oxford, 1909)

CATALOGUE OF HIEROGLYPHIC SIGNS 225

What appears to be a later version ot this sign with its parallel zigzags generally
reduced to mere S-shaped forms and with the intervening dots omitted recurs in both
the linear classes.

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116. a. P.40*c. b. a, P. 87a; b, P. 74b; c, P. 114b; d, P. 113b.

More especially in its glyptic form, a, this sign resembles the forepart of a ship
with a high prow and with two or three masts. On the prism-seal P. 49* c, where it is
seen in its glyptic aspect, it shows two disks beside the ' masts', which may be com-
pared with a similar disk in front of the mast of the ' ship' sign P. 57 a*. It is here
coupled with the ' trowel' and ' arrow'. On P. 87 a it appears with the ' angle *
(No. 42) followed by numbers = 30. On P. 74 b it is seen alone and also on P. 114. On
P. 113b it appears at the end of a sign group containing the 'fig-branch' and two
varieties of the ' crook' sign.

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117. This enigmatic sign occurs on the clay sealing P. 70b, between the 'tree'

and the ' rain ' sign (No. 113).

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118. This sign is grouped with the ' gate ' and ' human leg' on the clay label

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119. This somewhat complicated sign is only found with No. 60 £ and No. 125 on
the clay label P. 95 a.

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120. This wholly enigmatic character appears on the stamp of the cup handles
from Palaikastro, associated with the duck and the jug (No. 47).
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