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)

HIGH TABLETS MARKED WITH CROSS-LINES 695

clear by the pictographic de-
signs on their margins, and
accompanied by special formu-
las. The tablets, for the most
part, were thenstoredinwooden
cases, which would naturally
have [been labelled with ink-
written inscriptions.

The whole surface was Tablets
marked out with cross-lines as ^l-'™

a preliminary to the insertion "°™-
of the written records, which
was often, as will be seen from
Fig. 6S0, only partly filled in.
Evidently the tablets were sup-
plied in this state to the clerk,
like ruled sheets of paper in a
modern business office.

In one quite exceptional
case the tablet, which is of the
elongated ' slip ' form, is scored
by vertical in place of hori-
zontal lines (Fig. 681). It is
thus divided into six compart-
ments,1 the last blank, the first
—rather wider than the others
—containing presumably the
name of the principal person
concerned in larger characters.

Tablet showing Incised Link for
Entries.

4)

Fig. 681. Exceptional Tablet showing Vertically Divided Sections (^).

Assuming that the arrangement in the small lacuna was symmetrical with the rest of
the tablet as restored in Fig. 681.