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$29. M. M. Ill: (O) The Linear Script A and its Sacral Usage.
Hieroglyphic system superseded by advanced Linear Script A ; Palace
documents of M. M. Ill date; Cups with ink-written Inscriptions—from
Sanctuary site ; Graffiti on Palace pottery of M. M. Ill date; Clay docu-
ments of Temple Repositories; Early form of tablets; Tablets from S.E.
Insula—' talent' and ' drachm ' signs ; Business documents with minerals—
inventories ; Clay ' roundels , inscribed and scaled; Gypsum chip used as trial
piece, from Kasella ; Lapidary inscriptions of religious character; Inscribed
votive stone Ladles from Mountain Sanctuaries of Knossos; Clay Votive
Ladle from Early Miuoan deposit at Knossos ; Specimens from votive stations
011 peak of Juktas and on foot-hill at Trullos; Recurring dedicatory formula on
Trullos Ladle—associated with Throne and Sceptre Sign; Similar formula on
Libation Table from Psychro Cave; On Libation Table and Stone Cip from
Palaikastro ; Inscribed votive tablet of bronze from Psychro Cave; Name of
Votary i?tscribed in characters of Class A—parallel phenomenon on Votive
Figurine from Tylissos ; Ritual interpretation of signs on tablet—oXoXvyrj ;
Triple aspect of Cult of J\ lino an Goddess ; Dedicatory fornmla connected with
Cradle, Temple, and Tomb of Cretan Zeus; Official adoption of new Script
due to hieratic influences ; General knowledge of Art of Writing—Graff ti on
Walls ; Diffiision of script for commercial purposes to Melos, Cfc. ; Earlier
a7iticipations of advanced Linear Script on Seal Stones; Systemaiization by
Central Authority in M. M. Ill; Synopsis of Class A ; Comparisons behveen
Linear and Hieroglyphic signaries; Compound and barred signs and Numera-
tion ; Relations of Linear Classes A and B—evidences of overlapping.
Appear- The series of inscribed vessels from the Palace stores and deposits, to
cincG of
Advanced which attention has been called in the Section relating to the pottery, brings
ScripT us face to ^~ace with a phenomenon of double import that makes itself
apparent at this epoch. It is not only the increased use of the Art of Writing
for the purposes of ordinary life that now strikes us, but the evidence of the
introduction of an advanced linearized script, so divergent from the preceding
Disuse of hieroglyphic system, that it is only in about a third of the signs that we are
Hiero- able to trace a direct relation to it. The use of the Hieroglyphic class seems
glyph ic . *
System. in fact to have ceased abruptly with the catastrophe of the close of M. M. 11 —
Hieroglyphic system superseded by advanced Linear Script A ; Palace
documents of M. M. Ill date; Cups with ink-written Inscriptions—from
Sanctuary site ; Graffiti on Palace pottery of M. M. Ill date; Clay docu-
ments of Temple Repositories; Early form of tablets; Tablets from S.E.
Insula—' talent' and ' drachm ' signs ; Business documents with minerals—
inventories ; Clay ' roundels , inscribed and scaled; Gypsum chip used as trial
piece, from Kasella ; Lapidary inscriptions of religious character; Inscribed
votive stone Ladles from Mountain Sanctuaries of Knossos; Clay Votive
Ladle from Early Miuoan deposit at Knossos ; Specimens from votive stations
011 peak of Juktas and on foot-hill at Trullos; Recurring dedicatory formula on
Trullos Ladle—associated with Throne and Sceptre Sign; Similar formula on
Libation Table from Psychro Cave; On Libation Table and Stone Cip from
Palaikastro ; Inscribed votive tablet of bronze from Psychro Cave; Name of
Votary i?tscribed in characters of Class A—parallel phenomenon on Votive
Figurine from Tylissos ; Ritual interpretation of signs on tablet—oXoXvyrj ;
Triple aspect of Cult of J\ lino an Goddess ; Dedicatory fornmla connected with
Cradle, Temple, and Tomb of Cretan Zeus; Official adoption of new Script
due to hieratic influences ; General knowledge of Art of Writing—Graff ti on
Walls ; Diffiision of script for commercial purposes to Melos, Cfc. ; Earlier
a7iticipations of advanced Linear Script on Seal Stones; Systemaiization by
Central Authority in M. M. Ill; Synopsis of Class A ; Comparisons behveen
Linear and Hieroglyphic signaries; Compound and barred signs and Numera-
tion ; Relations of Linear Classes A and B—evidences of overlapping.
Appear- The series of inscribed vessels from the Palace stores and deposits, to
cincG of
Advanced which attention has been called in the Section relating to the pottery, brings
ScripT us face to ^~ace with a phenomenon of double import that makes itself
apparent at this epoch. It is not only the increased use of the Art of Writing
for the purposes of ordinary life that now strikes us, but the evidence of the
introduction of an advanced linearized script, so divergent from the preceding
Disuse of hieroglyphic system, that it is only in about a third of the signs that we are
Hiero- able to trace a direct relation to it. The use of the Hieroglyphic class seems
glyph ic . *
System. in fact to have ceased abruptly with the catastrophe of the close of M. M. 11 —