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)

76o COMPARISON WITH SIGNS OF MINOAN SCRIPT

distinctive terminals of the groups identified above as representing m ■

names on the Knossos tablets of Class B.1
Inscribed Turning to the clay-balls, five in number,2 the incisions on whi 1

bails. (Fig. 742 and Fig. 743, a-e) at times recall cuneiform methods, it is cle

Casts of Inscriptions on Clay-balls, Enkomi, Cyprus.

a

% 3 A

I X 3

W+tfW «•*** *hk

I 3 3

I- c

d * / f

Fig. 7J3. Copies ok Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions, a-e, On Clay-balls ; f, g, Cylinders.

that, out of the twelve different characters fairly well defined, nine may be
identified with signs of the Cretan Linear Script (see Table, Fig. 744). Io
these the gold signet-ring adds three more, including the ankh sign, common
to both Script A and B. Together with those on the limestone fragments
(three of which duplicate the others), we have thus in all 15 Cypro-Minoan
signs that are paralleled by the advanced linear forms of Crete.

It is noteworthy that while the terminal sign on the ring (No. 9 of the
Table) and the special form in which the 'cup' appears (No. 4) point to

1 See above, p. 714. Persson in his paper on Some Inscribed Ten"'

'- Three only of these were reproduced by cotta Balls from Enkomi. He regards them a

transcriptions in B.M. Excam. 6-v., p. 27, weights, but Minoan, Syrian, and EgVp"

Figs. 58, 59, and 60 (upside down). Photo- weights all have a flat surface below to keep

graphic facsimiles of casts were kindly supplied them in position. These objects, mce 1

by the British Museum. See, too, Professor have no single characteristic of weights.