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M.M. Ill: LINEAR SCRIPT A AND ITS SACRAL USAGE 645
in the forms used for tens and units as also the fractional signs of Class A as System of
represented by documents belonging to its M. M. Ill phase. In the case of tioJ[nera"
the higher numbers, however, the chanp-e is of a radical kind, the old
lozenge-shaped figure used for thousands, as well as the sloping line indicative
of a hundred, being now replaced by the numerals shown in Fig. 479.
The dot or pellet as the equivalent for 10, which was at first taken over
from the older system, has a distinct chronological value in connexion with
the linear script. It seems still to be universal in the early inscriptions
of Class A, such as those belonging to the M. M. Ill Period found in the
Palace of Knossos. On the tablets of the succeeding L. M. I Period it
passes, however, by a gradual transition into a horizontal line, and it is under
this form that the decimal figure appears in the script of Class B, the
ABcDEFGH I J K
L M N O P
Q
R S
T U V W
X
Y
Z A?
B2
Fig. 478. Compound Forms of Class A with 'Hand and Arm' Sign.
numeral signs of which are otherwise identical with those of Class A.
This itself may be taken as an interesting piece of evidence as to the
relatively late date of the existing tablets of Class B.
Otherwise the comparative examples of characters of this latter series
given in Fig. 477 point to an origin in many respects as early as those of
Class A. The parallelism between the two signaries is itself considerable,
and of the types of Class A given in the Table, Fig. 47(5, many are
identical or closely similar in the other script. It is interesting to observe,
moreover, in this connexion, that some of the characters of B present
features nearer to their presumed prototypes than the equivalents in
series A.
More will be said as to the character and relationships of Class B in Relation
of" Linear
a Section dealing Math the clay archives of the Later Palace at Knossos. classes A
It is an undoubted fact that it first emerges in a fully systematized shape at and B*
a date not long anterior at least to the beginning of L. M. II. As unques-
tionably, however, it contains independent elements which, as in the case of
in the forms used for tens and units as also the fractional signs of Class A as System of
represented by documents belonging to its M. M. Ill phase. In the case of tioJ[nera"
the higher numbers, however, the chanp-e is of a radical kind, the old
lozenge-shaped figure used for thousands, as well as the sloping line indicative
of a hundred, being now replaced by the numerals shown in Fig. 479.
The dot or pellet as the equivalent for 10, which was at first taken over
from the older system, has a distinct chronological value in connexion with
the linear script. It seems still to be universal in the early inscriptions
of Class A, such as those belonging to the M. M. Ill Period found in the
Palace of Knossos. On the tablets of the succeeding L. M. I Period it
passes, however, by a gradual transition into a horizontal line, and it is under
this form that the decimal figure appears in the script of Class B, the
ABcDEFGH I J K
L M N O P
Q
R S
T U V W
X
Y
Z A?
B2
Fig. 478. Compound Forms of Class A with 'Hand and Arm' Sign.
numeral signs of which are otherwise identical with those of Class A.
This itself may be taken as an interesting piece of evidence as to the
relatively late date of the existing tablets of Class B.
Otherwise the comparative examples of characters of this latter series
given in Fig. 477 point to an origin in many respects as early as those of
Class A. The parallelism between the two signaries is itself considerable,
and of the types of Class A given in the Table, Fig. 47(5, many are
identical or closely similar in the other script. It is interesting to observe,
moreover, in this connexion, that some of the characters of B present
features nearer to their presumed prototypes than the equivalents in
series A.
More will be said as to the character and relationships of Class B in Relation
of" Linear
a Section dealing Math the clay archives of the Later Palace at Knossos. classes A
It is an undoubted fact that it first emerges in a fully systematized shape at and B*
a date not long anterior at least to the beginning of L. M. II. As unques-
tionably, however, it contains independent elements which, as in the case of