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{ 30. The Phaestos Disk in its Minoan Relations.
Tablet of Class A found zvith imprinted Disk at Phaestos : In Cist zvith
M.M. IIPh pottery ; Npn-Minoan character of Disk ; Hieroglyphs stamped
by novel method; Order of Sign-Groups on Disk; The Signary—small
common element zvith Minoan Scripts; The 1 Manacles ' sign; Artistic execution
of Signs compared with Minoan; At date of Disk Hieroglyphs superseded
by linear signs in Crete; Indications of connexion zvith S. W. Anatolia; Plumed
cap and round shield of later Sea-rovers; Arroiv sign on Ship ; Anatolian,
religious element—Symbols of Goddess Ma ; Pagoda-like building- -Lykiau
parallels ; Specialized, character of signs on Disk; Pictographs not of ancient
derivation but drawn from contemporary life; Phonographic elements—dual
Groups; Preponderant ideograph)'; Simple mnemonic element; Division into
Sections— terminal dashes ; Symmetrical arrangement of two faces ; Recurrent
sets of sign-groups—suggesting refrains ; Metrical character of Composition;
Record of Sea raid—connected zvith S. W. Region of Asia Minor ; Comparison
of later Egyptian Sea raids of Lykiaus and Confederates ; Pylon of Medinet
Habu ; Religious connexion of Disk—a ' TeDeum ' of Victory; Cretan Philis-
tines among later Sea-Raiders; But Disk not a record of Philistines in
Minoan Crete; Non-Minoan accoutrements of warriors on Disk; Kcftians
true Minoan representatives ; Disk a foreshadowing of later ethnic relations ;
An Evidence of M.M.I1I connexion between Crete and S.J I7. Anatolia;
An unique record.
The cumulative evidence as to the general use of the advanced Linear Tablet of
Script A at Knossos during the closing phase of M. M. Ill, at a date, that is, found
round about 1600 B. C., finds its counterpart in the recurrence of a typical wl.th ™"
... printed
tablet of this class (Fig. 480) with identical ceramic associations in the Palace Disk at
c ni Phaestos.
of Phaestos.
Its occurrence in that case, however, was accompanied by the still more
remarkable discovery of the well-known Disk of baked clay imprinted on
both sides with hieroglyphic characters of a class hitherto unexampled in Crete
or elsewhere (Fig. 482). At the same time it raises questions so intimately
connected with the course of Minoan history as to demand careful con-
sideration here.
The linear tablet, as will be seen from Fig. 480, presents the same abbre-
viated type of inscription, and is of the same, almost square, shape as the contem-
porary examples from Knossos, and belongs therefore to the earlier elements
Tablet of Class A found zvith imprinted Disk at Phaestos : In Cist zvith
M.M. IIPh pottery ; Npn-Minoan character of Disk ; Hieroglyphs stamped
by novel method; Order of Sign-Groups on Disk; The Signary—small
common element zvith Minoan Scripts; The 1 Manacles ' sign; Artistic execution
of Signs compared with Minoan; At date of Disk Hieroglyphs superseded
by linear signs in Crete; Indications of connexion zvith S. W. Anatolia; Plumed
cap and round shield of later Sea-rovers; Arroiv sign on Ship ; Anatolian,
religious element—Symbols of Goddess Ma ; Pagoda-like building- -Lykiau
parallels ; Specialized, character of signs on Disk; Pictographs not of ancient
derivation but drawn from contemporary life; Phonographic elements—dual
Groups; Preponderant ideograph)'; Simple mnemonic element; Division into
Sections— terminal dashes ; Symmetrical arrangement of two faces ; Recurrent
sets of sign-groups—suggesting refrains ; Metrical character of Composition;
Record of Sea raid—connected zvith S. W. Region of Asia Minor ; Comparison
of later Egyptian Sea raids of Lykiaus and Confederates ; Pylon of Medinet
Habu ; Religious connexion of Disk—a ' TeDeum ' of Victory; Cretan Philis-
tines among later Sea-Raiders; But Disk not a record of Philistines in
Minoan Crete; Non-Minoan accoutrements of warriors on Disk; Kcftians
true Minoan representatives ; Disk a foreshadowing of later ethnic relations ;
An Evidence of M.M.I1I connexion between Crete and S.J I7. Anatolia;
An unique record.
The cumulative evidence as to the general use of the advanced Linear Tablet of
Script A at Knossos during the closing phase of M. M. Ill, at a date, that is, found
round about 1600 B. C., finds its counterpart in the recurrence of a typical wl.th ™"
... printed
tablet of this class (Fig. 480) with identical ceramic associations in the Palace Disk at
c ni Phaestos.
of Phaestos.
Its occurrence in that case, however, was accompanied by the still more
remarkable discovery of the well-known Disk of baked clay imprinted on
both sides with hieroglyphic characters of a class hitherto unexampled in Crete
or elsewhere (Fig. 482). At the same time it raises questions so intimately
connected with the course of Minoan history as to demand careful con-
sideration here.
The linear tablet, as will be seen from Fig. 480, presents the same abbre-
viated type of inscription, and is of the same, almost square, shape as the contem-
porary examples from Knossos, and belongs therefore to the earlier elements