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674 FORMS OF TABLETS OF CLASS B

of old lead sheeting—easily confounded with tin. The precipitation of a
hoard of clay tablets at an earlier date into one of these is itself paralleled
by the boxful that' had fallen into the bath-like receptacle described above

Forms of Tablets associated with Linear Script B.

The elongated 'slip' type of clay tablet, illustrated by the series from the

Tablets
of Linear
Class B:
their
forms

Fig. Go7 a, b, c. Tablets of Elongated Forms seen fkom the side.

Eighth Magazine (Figs. 655, 656) is the commonest and most characteristic
of those inscribed with the Linear Class B. These as a rule present a
single group of signs, followed by two rows of smaller signs and numbers,
divided by a horizontal bar. The back of these curves slightly in a longi-
tudinal direction, so that the ends are somewhat wedge-shaped. (See
Fig. 657.) A copy of the inscription on Fig. 657, c, which is of a broader
three-lined type and belongs to the 'Cereal' class, is given in Fig. 60S.
Some of these 'elongated slips ' attain a length of 24 centimetres, or about
8 inches.

Broader varieties (like Fig. 657, c) are also found, divided along the
whole length by two or at times three horizontal lines. Larger specimens
of this class—as one in which the 'wheel' sign occurs in each line -

1 See below, p. 795, Fig. 7G8.