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SYNOPSIS OF SIGNARY OF CLASS A
Transi-
tional A
Class
fitting on
the Hiero-
glyphic.
of the building that took place about the latter elate—its records \vp-
largely destroyed. At Phaestos only a single tablet, resembling those of the
'Temple Repositories' at Knossos, marks the earlier (M. M. 111(5) stare
but the dependencies of the neighbouring ' Little Palace' of Hagia Triada'
where the bulk of the known tablets of this Class came to light, brincr
down its records well into the First Late Minoan phase. The ceramic asso-
ciations indicate that this class of script had survived in Southern Crete
at least to the L. M. I b stage.
It is interesting to observe that both at Palaikastro1 and at Mallia8
early examples of the Linear Script A appear on clay bars of the same
type as those bearing the Hieroglyphic script at Knossos. On the other
hand, the numeration on the clay bars of Mallia of the Hieroglyphic Class
already conforms to that of the Linear Class A as seen at Hagia Triada
Knossos, and elsewhere.3
Synopsis of Class A for Comparison.
Synopsis For the sake of comparison it has been thought well to reproduce here
Ai °!'ry in a somewhat revised form the synopsis of the signs of the A script given
in the first Volume of this work (Fig. 659).l To this is appended, in
1 R. C. Bosanquet and R. M. Dawkins, The
Unpublislicd Objects from the Palaikastro Exca-
vations (Suppl. Paper of the B. S.A.):p. 146,
Fig. 12S, and see my note. The numeration
certainly seems to belong to the archaic class,
hut presents difficulties.
- Fernand Chapouthier, Les Ecriiures
minoennes ait Palais de Mallia (Paris), 1930,
'P. Geuthner, i, pp. 55, 56 (Ch. Ill, Les Inscrip-
tions lineaires). In his excellent analysis of
these lie shows that the signs for this group
contain characteristic types of Class A.
1 Chapouthier, lb., pp. 53, 34. It must,
however, be said that I am quite unable to
accept M. Chapouthier's view that the Hiero-
glyphic Deposit of Mallia belongs to M.M.III.
The signet impressions on clay documents with
a parallel script from Knossos and themselves
presenting similar hieroglyphs are of types
that cease at the close of M. M. II. Some
belong to M. M. I. Linearized forms of the
Hieroglyphic class occur as graffiti on a
characteristic M. M. Io form of clay jug with
hatched decoration. One of these from a
primitive tholos found by me at Krasi (about
3 hours South of Mallia and afterwards fully
excavated by M. Sp. Marinates) is, from its
context, clearly M.-M. I a, and that published
by me in Scripta Minoa, i, p. 12, Fig. 6, repre-
sents a parallel type. Those from Nirou Khani
stand in the same relation (°E</>. 'A/>x-, I9°6'
PI. 9, 1-3). Vases of the same form and
similar incised hatch-work were found, as M.
Chapouthier himself admits {pp. cit, p. 64,
Fig. 5), in the deposit near the tablets at
Mallia, and the ' rippled' tortoise-shell ware
also found there itself goes back to M. M. II.
The bars, however, with the Linear Script A,
may well be of M. M. Ill a date.
' A provisional list of signs belonging to the
advanced Linear Class A is given in P. o/M.,
i, p. 642, Fig. 476. To the 90 types there given
I am here able to add those given in Fig. 660 :
Of these thevegetable sign 91 is clearly different
from No. 44 of Fig. 47G, and in a reversed
position (c of No. 18 finds its place here).
SYNOPSIS OF SIGNARY OF CLASS A
Transi-
tional A
Class
fitting on
the Hiero-
glyphic.
of the building that took place about the latter elate—its records \vp-
largely destroyed. At Phaestos only a single tablet, resembling those of the
'Temple Repositories' at Knossos, marks the earlier (M. M. 111(5) stare
but the dependencies of the neighbouring ' Little Palace' of Hagia Triada'
where the bulk of the known tablets of this Class came to light, brincr
down its records well into the First Late Minoan phase. The ceramic asso-
ciations indicate that this class of script had survived in Southern Crete
at least to the L. M. I b stage.
It is interesting to observe that both at Palaikastro1 and at Mallia8
early examples of the Linear Script A appear on clay bars of the same
type as those bearing the Hieroglyphic script at Knossos. On the other
hand, the numeration on the clay bars of Mallia of the Hieroglyphic Class
already conforms to that of the Linear Class A as seen at Hagia Triada
Knossos, and elsewhere.3
Synopsis of Class A for Comparison.
Synopsis For the sake of comparison it has been thought well to reproduce here
Ai °!'ry in a somewhat revised form the synopsis of the signs of the A script given
in the first Volume of this work (Fig. 659).l To this is appended, in
1 R. C. Bosanquet and R. M. Dawkins, The
Unpublislicd Objects from the Palaikastro Exca-
vations (Suppl. Paper of the B. S.A.):p. 146,
Fig. 12S, and see my note. The numeration
certainly seems to belong to the archaic class,
hut presents difficulties.
- Fernand Chapouthier, Les Ecriiures
minoennes ait Palais de Mallia (Paris), 1930,
'P. Geuthner, i, pp. 55, 56 (Ch. Ill, Les Inscrip-
tions lineaires). In his excellent analysis of
these lie shows that the signs for this group
contain characteristic types of Class A.
1 Chapouthier, lb., pp. 53, 34. It must,
however, be said that I am quite unable to
accept M. Chapouthier's view that the Hiero-
glyphic Deposit of Mallia belongs to M.M.III.
The signet impressions on clay documents with
a parallel script from Knossos and themselves
presenting similar hieroglyphs are of types
that cease at the close of M. M. II. Some
belong to M. M. I. Linearized forms of the
Hieroglyphic class occur as graffiti on a
characteristic M. M. Io form of clay jug with
hatched decoration. One of these from a
primitive tholos found by me at Krasi (about
3 hours South of Mallia and afterwards fully
excavated by M. Sp. Marinates) is, from its
context, clearly M.-M. I a, and that published
by me in Scripta Minoa, i, p. 12, Fig. 6, repre-
sents a parallel type. Those from Nirou Khani
stand in the same relation (°E</>. 'A/>x-, I9°6'
PI. 9, 1-3). Vases of the same form and
similar incised hatch-work were found, as M.
Chapouthier himself admits {pp. cit, p. 64,
Fig. 5), in the deposit near the tablets at
Mallia, and the ' rippled' tortoise-shell ware
also found there itself goes back to M. M. II.
The bars, however, with the Linear Script A,
may well be of M. M. Ill a date.
' A provisional list of signs belonging to the
advanced Linear Class A is given in P. o/M.,
i, p. 642, Fig. 476. To the 90 types there given
I am here able to add those given in Fig. 660 :
Of these thevegetable sign 91 is clearly different
from No. 44 of Fig. 47G, and in a reversed
position (c of No. 18 finds its place here).