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)

7io NAME-GROUPS: 'MAN' AND 'WOMAN' SIGN

With and The female examples, as shown in I'm'. 693 is, are not so abundant an t-l-,*.

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• man' or male, partly owing to the fact that there are longer list ot persons to which the

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man

sign is actually attached, but also largely owing to another circumstance

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Fig. 693 B. Name-groups or Linear Script B associated with ' Woman ' Sign.

It will be seen that a disproportionately large number of the Knossian
tablets preserved to us in whole or part, including the ' percentage' series,
refers to flocks and herds, and of their nature principally relate to persons or
the male sex. So, too, the ' Chariot' tablets, of which there is also a large
series, may be thought to have been principally concerned with men.

The correspondence and interconnexions of these ' labelled' name-
groups of both' sexes, with a much larger series of sign-groups, mostly taking
the initial place on the tablets, are such as to warrant the conclusion that