Evans, A: Scripta Minoa -

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Excerpt from Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos, Vol. 1: The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes; With an Account of the Discovery of the Pre-Phoenician Scripts, Their Place in Minoan Story and Their Mediterranean Relations For these reasons the First Part of the present volume has been devoted to a summary view of all the successive types of Minoan script, including the primitive pictographic, the hieroglyphic, and the advanced linear classes. Their genesis is traced from a widespread European family of immemorial antiquity, and the place occupied by them among other early forms of writing traceable throughout the Mediterranean basin is as far as possible defined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.