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M.M. Ill: LINEAR SCRIPT A AND ITS SACRAL USAGE 621
from the Repositories.1 The other roundel c, showing five rectangular
prominences,2 affords an example of the same signet type as that of which
impressions were found on the store jar described above 3 found in the
Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi, and which represents the conventionalized
facade of a building. Similar clay 'roundels' sealed in the same way have
been found, at times in a slightly later, L. M. I association at Gournia, Zakro,
Hagia Triada and elsewhere, some with somewhat fuller graffito inscriptions
and occasionally with numbers. Thus Fig. 457, a, b, from Gournia given here
for comparison, which is inscribed on both sides, bears on its reverse numbers
= 5. It has five impressions round its border representing the hind part of
an animal, apparently a bull.
a b
Fig. 457, a, b. Inscribed Clay Roundel from Gournia
with Seal Impressions.
It seems probable that these sealed 'roundels' represented obligations
of some sort undertaken by the person or persons whose signet impressions
they bore.
A carious inscribed object of which mention has already been made, Gypsum
brought out amidst the rubble remains beneath the later floor of a Kasella of as Trial6
the Thirteenth Magazine, brings us face to face with a very important class of Piece-
lapidary inscriptions, associated here and elsewhere with M.M. Ill deposits.
This was a fragment of a gypsum slab that had been used in a casual way by
some Minoan workman as a kind of trial piece on which to practise the
engraving of characters in the contemporary linear script. For this purpose
he had, as a guide, very irregularly scratched what were evidently intended
to be three horizontal lines within which to incise the characters (Fig. 458).
1 See above, p. 515, Fig. 374. is probably the 'throne and sceptre', No. 52,
2 The sign on this to the right is No. 60 of but turned to the right as in Class B.
the Table, Fig. 476 below. The other character 3 See above, Fig. 410, and compare Fig. 411.
from the Repositories.1 The other roundel c, showing five rectangular
prominences,2 affords an example of the same signet type as that of which
impressions were found on the store jar described above 3 found in the
Magazine of the Medallion Pithoi, and which represents the conventionalized
facade of a building. Similar clay 'roundels' sealed in the same way have
been found, at times in a slightly later, L. M. I association at Gournia, Zakro,
Hagia Triada and elsewhere, some with somewhat fuller graffito inscriptions
and occasionally with numbers. Thus Fig. 457, a, b, from Gournia given here
for comparison, which is inscribed on both sides, bears on its reverse numbers
= 5. It has five impressions round its border representing the hind part of
an animal, apparently a bull.
a b
Fig. 457, a, b. Inscribed Clay Roundel from Gournia
with Seal Impressions.
It seems probable that these sealed 'roundels' represented obligations
of some sort undertaken by the person or persons whose signet impressions
they bore.
A carious inscribed object of which mention has already been made, Gypsum
brought out amidst the rubble remains beneath the later floor of a Kasella of as Trial6
the Thirteenth Magazine, brings us face to face with a very important class of Piece-
lapidary inscriptions, associated here and elsewhere with M.M. Ill deposits.
This was a fragment of a gypsum slab that had been used in a casual way by
some Minoan workman as a kind of trial piece on which to practise the
engraving of characters in the contemporary linear script. For this purpose
he had, as a guide, very irregularly scratched what were evidently intended
to be three horizontal lines within which to incise the characters (Fig. 458).
1 See above, p. 515, Fig. 374. is probably the 'throne and sceptre', No. 52,
2 The sign on this to the right is No. 60 of but turned to the right as in Class B.
the Table, Fig. 476 below. The other character 3 See above, Fig. 410, and compare Fig. 411.