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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

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SCRIPTA MINOA

mask itself was rather the personal badge or appellative. That the animal figures
connected with the groups should be taken in a personal relation can hardly be
doubted.

It is interesting to observe that the oldest examples of the gate and leg series,
as shown on the bead-seals, P. i and 10 respectively, are associated on other faces of
the stones, in the one case with a male figure—confirming the personal application
of the formula; in the other with two of the types parlants already referred to, namely,

I

0 "
i

A



5

SUGGESTED
MEANING



COMBINATIONS

Gate or Door

Keeper or
Guardian

With

. Guardian and
Leader

Bent Human
Leg

Leader

w,™

1 Guardian AMD
' Leader

Human Eye

Overseer or
Governor

4

\ Overseer and
Builder of

Palaces

Trowel

Mason
Bricklayer

BuitDER

With
5

Builder or
I Founder

<">"

Carpenter
Builder

WITH

\ [of Palaces]

Template

Wall-painter
Beautifier

With
4

Founder and
Beautifier of

Sanctuary

Sacred

Double Axe

[Labrys]

Place of the

With

Guardian of

the ' Labrys '

Sanctuary

Arrow

Hunter
Warrior

With
4

Warrior and
Founder

Fig. 120 (Table

XXIII). Official

rities.



the crouching dog and the spider. The animal figures, occurring thus on a signet type
of the more primitive style, must in this case be regarded as the canting badges of an
earlier generation.

To the later generation of the 'gate and leg' family, indicated by An, are
appended other closely related groups, of which D is found four times occupying
another face of the same seal. Another of these, E, reappears on P. 29 b with the
addition of the spider, and on P. 48 c with the ass's head. Through E, in combination
with F, the 'gate and leg' is linked with a group showing the wolfs head. The
 
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