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THE MYCENAEAN AGE
but, as Evans observes (page 282), "the marks themselves,
like many others of the kind, those, for instance, on the
Phoenician walls of Eryx, are taken from a regular script."
The correctness of this opinion is attested by finding the
same signs on other objects — for example, on the two han-
dles described above, which belong to the Mycenaean epoch.
Mr. Evans has now dis-
covered a number of simi-
lar signs engraved on seal-
stones, on pendants, on
whorls of stone and of
clay, on vases, and on a
stone of the Mycenaean
type, all of them found in
Crete. Similar signs oc-
cur on a large block of
stone which Halbherr ob-
served, and copied, in a
terrace wall on the site of
Phaestos. Chiseled upon
this block, along with two
doubtful signs, we see a
broad arrow recalling one
of the most frequent symbols on the seals. Similar signs
again are to be read on a " pale green per-
forated steatite from Siphnos, one side of
which is engraved with characters of cu-
riously Cypriote aspect " (Fig. 145). And
we must now add the continuous inscrip-
tion from the cave of Psychro.1
From the data thus collected, Mr. Evans
drew up a table of signs containing thirty-two characters.
1 See Note appended to this chapter.
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Fig-144. Signs on Blocks of Mycenaean
Building, Knossos (Evans, Fig. 0)
THE MYCENAEAN AGE
but, as Evans observes (page 282), "the marks themselves,
like many others of the kind, those, for instance, on the
Phoenician walls of Eryx, are taken from a regular script."
The correctness of this opinion is attested by finding the
same signs on other objects — for example, on the two han-
dles described above, which belong to the Mycenaean epoch.
Mr. Evans has now dis-
covered a number of simi-
lar signs engraved on seal-
stones, on pendants, on
whorls of stone and of
clay, on vases, and on a
stone of the Mycenaean
type, all of them found in
Crete. Similar signs oc-
cur on a large block of
stone which Halbherr ob-
served, and copied, in a
terrace wall on the site of
Phaestos. Chiseled upon
this block, along with two
doubtful signs, we see a
broad arrow recalling one
of the most frequent symbols on the seals. Similar signs
again are to be read on a " pale green per-
forated steatite from Siphnos, one side of
which is engraved with characters of cu-
riously Cypriote aspect " (Fig. 145). And
we must now add the continuous inscrip-
tion from the cave of Psychro.1
From the data thus collected, Mr. Evans
drew up a table of signs containing thirty-two characters.
1 See Note appended to this chapter.
olo %*&
a t
&fi ffl^
A . *
Fig-144. Signs on Blocks of Mycenaean
Building, Knossos (Evans, Fig. 0)