Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Minoan period. As well as writingwith ink on skin, papyrus, or pottery, or, perhaps, in-scribing wax tablets with a stilus, the Minoans took tomaking their signs on lumps of clay, as they had been inthe habit for centuries of stamping them on clay seal-ings by means of seal-stones. They first had markedgraffito inscriptions on the sealings by the side of theseal-stone impression ; the transition to lumps of claywith grafiito only and no seal-impressions was perforation of the earliest tablets is in favour
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Minoan period. As well as writingwith ink on skin, papyrus, or pottery, or, perhaps, in-scribing wax tablets with a stilus, the Minoans took tomaking their signs on lumps of clay, as they had been inthe habit for centuries of stamping them on clay seal-ings by means of seal-stones. They first had markedgraffito inscriptions on the sealings by the side of theseal-stone impression ; the transition to lumps of claywith grafiito only and no seal-impressions was perforation of the earliest tablets is in favour ofthis view ; it represents the hole in the sealing throughwhich ran the fastening-string of theobject to be the documents for which the new (and no doubtrather inferior) method of writing was used would besuch as would actually be docketed together, for whicha string-hole would be useful. But very soon the holewas given up, and string no longer used to keep togetherthe tablets, which now, the old sealing-like label -* Scripta Minoa, Figs. 95, 96. FLA TE XXXni.
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