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SIGN-GROUPS INDICATIVE OF CHILDREN

in the second list of the tablet.1 Here we may infer that it applied
different individuals of the same name. At other times where, as not i
frequently happens, a name recurs on more than one tablet, we are free
suppose that it may belong" to another person.

The addition formula here ■j"Kf is an abbreviation of that on the laro-p
tablet, Fig. 686, with the lists of male names. It is followed by the 'woman'
sign, and the total number 46.

Signs
indica-
tive of

Sign groups indicative of Children of Both Sexes.

It is specially to be noted that in the addition sums seen on this tablet—
as in a series of parallel documents—the ' woman' sign is coupled with

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Fig. 690. Tablet with Signs indicating Women, and apparently, Children of Both

Sexes. (§)

two other groups 9R|, and Qfa , indicative of separate categories.2 On the
tablet, Fig. 690, we see these categories further differentiated, in the case
of the first, by supplementary formulas f "|"A and f (jT^fi' wh'cn are °^
frequent recurrence in the same connexion.

The most natural conclusion seems to be that we have here to deal
respectively with male and female children. The common element is here the
ft which elsewhere stands alone in connexion with numbers. Of the fl\
sign, with which it is coupled in the first group, and which therefore would
appear to have a masculine signification, all that can be said is that it is
itself apparently the derivative of a facade or porch of a building.,! With
regard to the qualifying formulas f^A and f (fT7ft associated with fl(j|,
it is worth while observing that in the modern Cretan dialect a different
word may be applied to boys over and under seven years of age.

' Lines 8, 10, 11. ' In Table(opp. p. 6S4),Fig.666 a, No. B S.

- In 1. 6 the second sign of the latter formula In earlier examples it has 4 ' posts ' (see J ■ J

is broken away. It can be restored with cer- M., i, p. 639, Fig. 474.
tainty from 1. 5 and a series of other examples.