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the Phaestos Disk, of which some account will be given below,1 being-
extraneous to the systems in vogue in Minoan Crete.

The form of writing that now appears has been classified by me The

as Class A of the advanced Linear Script. As regards half its characters scrip?A.
it essentially differs from Class B, which was current in the Knossian Palace

in the epoch that preceded its fall at the close of L. M. II. The evidence Palace

of clay tablets brought to light at Hagia Triada and elsewhere tends to show ^°n"s"0f

that the Linear Script A was still generally current in Crete during the First M.M. in

Q3,tC

Fig. 450. M. M. Ill Cup with Ink-written Inscription.

Slightly Reduced.

Late Minoan Period. The inscribed material from Knossos has, on the

other hand, a special value since it enables us, from the associations in which

they were found, to ascribe a series of documents in this form ot script to the

Third Middle Minoan Period.

Of special value in this connexion are the two cups illustrated above in Cups with

Fig. 431, with their inscriptions written on their inner clay in a kind of

dark ink, like sepia. The profile and make of these, as above noted, points inscrip-
tions :

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1 See Section 30, p. 647 seqq. below. <3Up>