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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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ANALYTICAL INDEX

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But partial settlement of Greeks in late Minoan

times not excluded.....

Cypriote signs compared with Anatolian .

§ 10. Cretan Philistines and the Phoenician
Alphabet:

Minoan element in Philistine settlement •

Coincident appearance of Phoenician alphabet

Cherethim: Cretans.

Kaphtor and Keftiu.....

Date of Philistine conquests in Canaan .

Earlier evidences of Minoan commercial inter-
course there ....

Philistines in Canaan a civilizing Aegean
element......

Did they bring with them a Minoan script ?

Mission of Wen Anion to Dor c. iioob.c.

Literary traditions among Takkaras.

Did the Philistines contribute to formation of
Phoenician alphabet? .

Greek ' Phoinikes' Aegean ' Red Men'

Unexplained supersession of cuneiform writing
in Canaan ....

The South Semitic alphabets .

Relation of Sabaean and Minaean alphabets
to North Semitic .

Radical divergences

Both North and South Semitic forms go back
to common source.....

Philistine Gaza natural distributing point

Attempts to find source of Phoenician alphabet
cuneiform theory.....

Babylonian element in Phoenician letter-names

Phoenician order differs from Babylonian

De Rough's theory.....

Primitive linear signs in Canaan

Source of Phoenician letters more advanced

Is it to be found in the Minoan script? .

Un-Semitic names of letters

Tetk = the/a and the Minoan 'wheel' sign

Koph and the Minoan ' head' sign .

Presumptions in favour of pictorial origin

Antecedent stages of Phoenician letters sup-
plied by Minoan scripts

Names seen to correspond with origin

' House' signs— belh and daleth

'Gate' signs—hi and chltk

' Hand' signs—yod and kaph .

' Fish,* or ' Water-snake' ?—nun

' Eye' sign—'am ....
' Mouth' sign—-pe ....
The complementary Greek letters and
South Semitic analogies

their

Pictorial reconstruction of Phoenician letters

confirmed.......92

Necessary reservations.....93

Lacunas in the evidence.....93

Extent of correspondence between Phoenician

and Minoan forms...... 93

Advanced Minoan linear characters, word-signs

as well as syllables or letters ... 94
Such word-signs translated, or literally taken

over........94

Was there a Keft nucleus to Phoenicians ? . 94

§ 11. Minoan Contact with Egypt, Italy, and
Spain:

Indications of Aegean factories in Lower
Egypt .......

Diffusion of Late Minoan remains there .

Late Minoan traces in Italy and Sicily .

The Minoan tradition in Sicily.

Sardinia : ingots with Minoan signs.

Minoan connexions with Spain

Minoan origin of Iberic vase decoration .

Long persistence of Minoizing ceramic class

Minoan bronzes in Majorca and Spain . 97-;

Minoan influences on Iberic culture precede
Phoenician.......<

Iberic inscriptions on Minoizing pottery . . c

Elements of Iberic scripts neither Phoenician
nor Greek.......<

May we here too trace Minoan influence

99

§ 12. Survival of Minoan Elements in Crete
and the Tradition of the Native System
of Writing:

Depopulation of Crete on break up of sea-
power .......

Legendary expedition of Minos to Sicily .
Gradual transformation ....
Partial break of continuity at Knossos
Survivals of Minoan culture

' Sub-Mlnoan ' stage.....

'Sub-Minoan' remains at Erganos .

Inscribed clay disk from Erganos .

Eteocretan survival in East and West

Knossos and its abiding traditions .

Minos and Labyrinth ....

Surviving elements of older cult at Knossos . 103

Crete outside scope of Iliad .... 103

Dorian conquest gradual.....103

The Dorian adoption of Minos

Minoan traditions favour early revival in Crete 104

The Daedalid School ....

Did a knowledge of Minoan script survive ?

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