Scripta Minoa: The Written Documents of Minoan Crete, With Special Reference to the Archives of Knossos - The Hieroglyphic and Primitive Linear Classes; With an Account of the Discovery of the Pre-Phoenician Scripts, Their Place in Min... #223659

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.