Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 4,2): Camp-stool Fresco, long-robed priests and beneficent genii [...] (London, 1935)

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Fig. G09. Clay Tablets of the Linear Class B with Inventories presenting

Granary and Cereal Signs.

floor were found a series of tablets (Fig. 609, a) l accompanied by the pictorial

s'£n [J, which must certainly be taken to refer to a granary or store-house

of some kind (Fig. 60S, a).2 It shows no signs of eaves, and at times

1 Haussoullier (B. de Con: Hell., 1S80, by sifting. They have not, however, in any case

P- 125; Rev. Arch., 1880, p. 359) remarks of (as M. Haussoullier seems to have hoped)

the previous .dig in this area 'les travaux ne added to the materials for Greek epigraphy,
mirent au jour aucune inscription '. As a 2 The passage—at the opening of which

matter of fact the tablets later brought to these tablets were first found—was at the

light here lay, partly in the earth left unex- time called the ' Corridor of the House

cavated, partly in the dump heaps re-explored Tablets'.