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PICTORIAL SIGNS OF PHONETIC VALUE IN GROUPS 713
swine is widely used as a component of personal names, and Scandinavian
forms like Svinhufvud (swine head) will at once occur. A late Greek name
form, Xotpofloo-Ko?, 'swineherd ', may also be cited.
The 'goat', of the group (-^ (, recalls the frequent appearances of the Hitikc
animal's head in the hieroglyphic series.1 The ' goat's' head sign is itself well ''cm ''°
known among the Hittite hieroglyphs, where it has a special importance slgn'
from its appearances with a cuneiform key to its phonetic value on the
silver boss of Tarkondemos.2 The name, written thus as the Greek trans-
literation of the names of Cilician kings, reads there Tarkutimme, the first
element, Tarku- (or Tarrik-), being represented by the goat's head. Con-
sidering the exceptionally close relation in which the older ethnic element
of Crete seems to have stood to the primitive population of Cilicia and its
borderlands,3 we have good warrant for concluding that the 'goat' sign on
the Knossian tablet represents a familiar phonetic element in a Minoan
name. It may indeed well be asked if the Greek work rpa-yos for a he-goat,
which does not seem to be of ' Aryan' origin, may not be included among
names taken over from the older occupants of Hellas.
Unfortunately, we have no such obvious clue in the case of the ' ox' 'Ox
sign which also recurs in these name-groups.4 Four examples of sign-
groups depicting the fore-part of this animal, are shown on fragmentary
tablets, (-^flft, ft^fl, ^Y and Y^fl' folIowed by the saffron sign.
(Fig. 694, z, and cf. c and h.)
The female association of the sign is here indicated by the recurring B.
A bird, possibly intended for a goose, occurs in the name-group \A 'f,
and the ' flying bird' sign, presumably an eagle, is of not infrequent appear-
ance in groups connected with the 'man'sign (^"j", §;^7^ anc' a^S0 '"
a female association.
Recognizable signs such as the 'lily', '"|\ and the 'leaf, Cp, also occur
both in male and female name-groups. It is interesting to find in the same
relation the conventional ' eye' sign—which itself displays a striking-
resemblance to the Tyrian form of the Semitic '»/?'«—-jt^.
Sripta Minoa, p. 207, No. 64. 3 See especially P. of M., i, p. 6 seqq.
" See Sayce's epoch-making interpretation ' According to the late Dr. A. E. Cowley
of the Hittite signs on the boss, Treats. Sue. {The Hittites, Schweich Lectures, III, pp. 57,
Bib. Arch., vii, Pt. II (1SS1), p. 297, and cf. 58), the bull or ox head occurs as the first
his restatement in W. Wright, Empire of the sign of the place-name Mar'ash (in cuneiform
Hittites, 18S6. Markasu) and would therefore represent M.
names.
swine is widely used as a component of personal names, and Scandinavian
forms like Svinhufvud (swine head) will at once occur. A late Greek name
form, Xotpofloo-Ko?, 'swineherd ', may also be cited.
The 'goat', of the group (-^ (, recalls the frequent appearances of the Hitikc
animal's head in the hieroglyphic series.1 The ' goat's' head sign is itself well ''cm ''°
known among the Hittite hieroglyphs, where it has a special importance slgn'
from its appearances with a cuneiform key to its phonetic value on the
silver boss of Tarkondemos.2 The name, written thus as the Greek trans-
literation of the names of Cilician kings, reads there Tarkutimme, the first
element, Tarku- (or Tarrik-), being represented by the goat's head. Con-
sidering the exceptionally close relation in which the older ethnic element
of Crete seems to have stood to the primitive population of Cilicia and its
borderlands,3 we have good warrant for concluding that the 'goat' sign on
the Knossian tablet represents a familiar phonetic element in a Minoan
name. It may indeed well be asked if the Greek work rpa-yos for a he-goat,
which does not seem to be of ' Aryan' origin, may not be included among
names taken over from the older occupants of Hellas.
Unfortunately, we have no such obvious clue in the case of the ' ox' 'Ox
sign which also recurs in these name-groups.4 Four examples of sign-
groups depicting the fore-part of this animal, are shown on fragmentary
tablets, (-^flft, ft^fl, ^Y and Y^fl' folIowed by the saffron sign.
(Fig. 694, z, and cf. c and h.)
The female association of the sign is here indicated by the recurring B.
A bird, possibly intended for a goose, occurs in the name-group \A 'f,
and the ' flying bird' sign, presumably an eagle, is of not infrequent appear-
ance in groups connected with the 'man'sign (^"j", §;^7^ anc' a^S0 '"
a female association.
Recognizable signs such as the 'lily', '"|\ and the 'leaf, Cp, also occur
both in male and female name-groups. It is interesting to find in the same
relation the conventional ' eye' sign—which itself displays a striking-
resemblance to the Tyrian form of the Semitic '»/?'«—-jt^.
Sripta Minoa, p. 207, No. 64. 3 See especially P. of M., i, p. 6 seqq.
" See Sayce's epoch-making interpretation ' According to the late Dr. A. E. Cowley
of the Hittite signs on the boss, Treats. Sue. {The Hittites, Schweich Lectures, III, pp. 57,
Bib. Arch., vii, Pt. II (1SS1), p. 297, and cf. 58), the bull or ox head occurs as the first
his restatement in W. Wright, Empire of the sign of the place-name Mar'ash (in cuneiform
Hittites, 18S6. Markasu) and would therefore represent M.
names.