Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . -m%..//,» tvo-/.; \VR1TIX(; I. ( Taimjus : Knossos (Stale- : I j) 2. Till-; IliAisTus Disk (i >I!\ki<sk| (Scale : \tz) THE HIEROGLYPHS 221 shape and seal-stone-like bar shape being also given up,adopted their final form : a rather long, slip-like tablet(PI. XXXIII, i) not so thick or so well-proportioned asthe Babylonian. This difference of shape, as well as thetheory sketched above of the probable origin of theMinoan tablet, precludes the idea of direct derivationfrom Babylonia. It has always seemed odd th

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Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . -m%..//,» tvo-/.; \VR1TIX(; I. ( Taimjus : Knossos (Stale- : I j) 2. Till-; IliAisTus Disk (i >I!\ki<sk| (Scale : \tz) THE HIEROGLYPHS 221 shape and seal-stone-like bar shape being also given up,adopted their final form : a rather long, slip-like tablet(PI. XXXIII, i) not so thick or so well-proportioned asthe Babylonian. This difference of shape, as well as thetheory sketched above of the probable origin of theMinoan tablet, precludes the idea of direct derivationfrom Babylonia. It has always seemed odd that theMin-oans should have adopted the clay tablet from Babylon,but practically nothing else. No culture of the ancientworld appears so absolutelyun-Babylonian, so completelyuninfluenced by the ideas of Euphratean civilization, asdoes that of prehistoric Greece. The cylindrical formof seal, though, as was natural, common in Cyprus, isvery rare in Crete ; and with the exception of one ortwo imitations of Ba

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