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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According to this view the inscription on Face A is divided into 10 sections, and
that on B into 8. To these must be added in each case another distinct break caused
by the long descending line that on both faces occurs at the end of the eighteenth
sign-group, so that the outer line of A and B begins with group 19.

A.5

A. 22



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A.2? S II Q

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Fig. 130 (Table XXV). Signs in Similar Collocations with or without the Distinguishing Marks.

Comparing now the series of sign-groups as divided into sections by the Parallelism
distinguishing dashes on both faces of the Disk, we arrive at the following results:— mentonUw

I (B) tvvofaces-

1, 2, 3, 4 — 5, 6 — 7, 8, 9 — 10 —11, 12 —
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, I 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 —
25, 26, 27 — 28, 29, 30.

II (A)
1, 2, 3, 4 — 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 — 10 — 11, 12 —
13, 14, 15 — 16 — 17, 18, J 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 —
25, 26, 27, 28 — 29, 30.
(-31)
It will be seen at once that there is a certain- parallelism in the above two tables.
Thus in the first line giving the sections up to 12 the first group of 4 and the
last two groups'of 1 and 2 respectively correspond. The only difference is that
the second section of II (Nos. 5-9) is in I broken up into two sections (5, 6 and 7-9).
In both cases, again, we have a break at the end of 24, that is, another series of 12,
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