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THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC.

the common types shown in Fig. 477, are drawn from sources at least equal
in antiquity with those of the rival script. On occasion, indeed, as already
noticed, the forms of its characters are somewhat nearer the pictorial
originals than the corresponding types of Class A. There is a certain
presumption, moreover, that the use of Class B at Knossos as an official

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Fig. 479. Numerals of Linear Script, Class A.

system may have somewhat overlapped that of Class A in other parts of the
island. It may even at times have reacted on elements of the other
signary. It is clear, for instance, that a variety of a group of quasi-
pictorial signs that appear on the later clay documents of Knossos, in
reference to swine, gives the key to an otherwise enigmatic character,
No. 87 of Class A (see Table, Fig. 476) which is seen on a tablet from Hagia
Triada.