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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Hieroglyphic system of Phaestos the normal

Minoan........286

Disk belongs to time when the Linear Class A

was rife in Crete......286

System of Disk nevertheless parallel with

Minoan........286

Fashions seen on Disk the antithesis to Cretan 286
Disk product of closely allied culture, probably

existing in SW. Anatolia .... 287

§ 5. Evidences of Metrical Arrangement in
the Inscriptions on the Disk:

The two inscriptions carefully balanced and

adjusted........ 287

Copied from prototype..... 287

Two equal inscriptions with concluding word . 287

Initial strokes, incised at intervals - . . 288

These strokes not designed to mark ideographs 288

Strokes indicate beginning of sentences . . 288

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Parallelism in arrangement on the two faces . 289
Recurrent sets of sign-groups: perhaps refrain 290

§ 6. The Inscription possibly a Religious
Chaunt in honour of the Anatolian
Great Mother:
The inscription a metrical composition . . 291
Symbols of Mother-Goddess on Disk, such as

female breast......291

Ox-hides perhaps in sacrificial connexion . 291
The Mother-Goddess of Crete sister form to

the Anatolian......291

Was there a sacred language ? . . . 292

Martial element on Disk; perhaps betokens

hymn of victory......292

Disk not to be regarded as matrix . . . 292
Use of stamps explained by need of greater

facility in reproducing hieroglyphic signs . 292
Such elaborate stamps cut for more extensive

compositions.......293

ERRATUM
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