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'SCALES' OR 'BALANCE' SIGN ON TABLETS
as can be clearly seen on a tablet from Hagia Triada, where a well
defined hook rises from the beam of the balance. A loop is seen in tli
case of a Shaft Grave example referred to below.1 In Class B, however
the best representations of the ' balance ' sign show the upright support
terminating below in a broad foot, while the upper end of it is forked to
hold the beam. This is clearly depicted on the tablets (Fig. 649 a, c d
below) from Knossos.
' Balance'
sign on
tablets.
The ' Scales' or ' Balance' Sign (-raXavTov) on Tablets : coupled
with 'Ingot' Sign.
The 'scales' or 'balance' is the GreekTakavrov, with which, indeed,
Fig. 647. Tablet from ' Temple
Repositories', Knossos.showing
' Balance '.
Fig. 648. Tablet from Papoura on
Borders of Lasethi, showing ' Balance :
the talent weight of the ingots specially connects them. This character, as
Appears we have seen, had already occurred on a tablet of the earlier linear Class A,
in Class A. founci m tne Temple Repositories, here reproduced in Fig. 647. It is
there coupled, as above noted, with the open hand sign springing from
the character U, reversed, which seems to supply a parallel to the Greek
' drachm' = a hand-full.1 The ' balance' sign on Class A tablets from
Hagia Triada is usually followed by numbers, which occur up to 19'
including a fractional sum such as i|. On an example from Papoura, near
the watershed on the way to the Diktaean Cave (Fig. 64S), it is also followed
by numbers = 35. In this case it is preceded by the 'open hand sign
tomb of Beni Hasan the verticality of the From a drawing by Howard Carter.)
upright support is told by a plummet. (Beni ' See p. 659, n. 3.
Hasan, Part IV, PI. xxvii, Fig. 3 and p. 9. ' P. ofM., i, p. 619 (Fig. 455, a).
'SCALES' OR 'BALANCE' SIGN ON TABLETS
as can be clearly seen on a tablet from Hagia Triada, where a well
defined hook rises from the beam of the balance. A loop is seen in tli
case of a Shaft Grave example referred to below.1 In Class B, however
the best representations of the ' balance ' sign show the upright support
terminating below in a broad foot, while the upper end of it is forked to
hold the beam. This is clearly depicted on the tablets (Fig. 649 a, c d
below) from Knossos.
' Balance'
sign on
tablets.
The ' Scales' or ' Balance' Sign (-raXavTov) on Tablets : coupled
with 'Ingot' Sign.
The 'scales' or 'balance' is the GreekTakavrov, with which, indeed,
Fig. 647. Tablet from ' Temple
Repositories', Knossos.showing
' Balance '.
Fig. 648. Tablet from Papoura on
Borders of Lasethi, showing ' Balance :
the talent weight of the ingots specially connects them. This character, as
Appears we have seen, had already occurred on a tablet of the earlier linear Class A,
in Class A. founci m tne Temple Repositories, here reproduced in Fig. 647. It is
there coupled, as above noted, with the open hand sign springing from
the character U, reversed, which seems to supply a parallel to the Greek
' drachm' = a hand-full.1 The ' balance' sign on Class A tablets from
Hagia Triada is usually followed by numbers, which occur up to 19'
including a fractional sum such as i|. On an example from Papoura, near
the watershed on the way to the Diktaean Cave (Fig. 64S), it is also followed
by numbers = 35. In this case it is preceded by the 'open hand sign
tomb of Beni Hasan the verticality of the From a drawing by Howard Carter.)
upright support is told by a plummet. (Beni ' See p. 659, n. 3.
Hasan, Part IV, PI. xxvii, Fig. 3 and p. 9. ' P. ofM., i, p. 619 (Fig. 455, a).