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CHAPTER XI
WRITING IN MYCENAEAN GREECE
It is now some years since traces of writing began to be
noted on Mycenaean monuments. The earliest published
First traces was a st°ne pestle from Mycenae with a single
rleinywrit- incised character resembling one of the Cypriote
ingmGreece signsi ^ year \a^m, m a chamber-tomb at My-
cenae we found two amphorae, quite plain, except that the
handle of one of them (a jar 22 inches high) bears three
characters incised while the clay was yet soft.2 There were
four very similar amphorae from the beehive tomb at
Menidi, and it was now observed that two of them bore
similar traces of writing — the handle of one having incised
upon it a character resembling a Greek II, the other a sign
identical with the Cypriote
pa.3 Again, in 1892, Dr.
Staes found in a tomb at
Pronoia a genuine Myce-
naean vessel with three
ears, on each of which is
graven a sign resembling
the Greek H, except that
the vertical strokes bend
outward at the top (Fig.
139). In the same year there
Fig. 137. Vessel from Pronoia
1 Tsountas, npa«TiK& rys 'ApxaioAoyiKtjs 'Eraipfaj. 1889, p. 19.
2 See group 9 in Table II. 8 See Table I, 4.
WRITING IN MYCENAEAN GREECE
It is now some years since traces of writing began to be
noted on Mycenaean monuments. The earliest published
First traces was a st°ne pestle from Mycenae with a single
rleinywrit- incised character resembling one of the Cypriote
ingmGreece signsi ^ year \a^m, m a chamber-tomb at My-
cenae we found two amphorae, quite plain, except that the
handle of one of them (a jar 22 inches high) bears three
characters incised while the clay was yet soft.2 There were
four very similar amphorae from the beehive tomb at
Menidi, and it was now observed that two of them bore
similar traces of writing — the handle of one having incised
upon it a character resembling a Greek II, the other a sign
identical with the Cypriote
pa.3 Again, in 1892, Dr.
Staes found in a tomb at
Pronoia a genuine Myce-
naean vessel with three
ears, on each of which is
graven a sign resembling
the Greek H, except that
the vertical strokes bend
outward at the top (Fig.
139). In the same year there
Fig. 137. Vessel from Pronoia
1 Tsountas, npa«TiK& rys 'ApxaioAoyiKtjs 'Eraipfaj. 1889, p. 19.
2 See group 9 in Table II. 8 See Table I, 4.