. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . d e Fig. 218. Coins of Cyrene with Figures ofSilphium Plant and Seed. Fig. 219. Combination of* and Heart-like Signs onM. M. II Cornelian Seal-Stone. what may be taken for a triple bunch of fruits or flowers above (see Fig. 216).Whatever may have been the plant here indicated, it is clear that it playedan important part in Minoan economy, the sign itself, indeed, frequentlyrecurring in formulas that seem to represent official titles. But we have
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . d e Fig. 218. Coins of Cyrene with Figures ofSilphium Plant and Seed. Fig. 219. Combination of* and Heart-like Signs onM. M. II Cornelian Seal-Stone. what may be taken for a triple bunch of fruits or flowers above (see Fig. 216).Whatever may have been the plant here indicated, it is clear that it playedan important part in Minoan economy, the sign itself, indeed, frequentlyrecurring in formulas that seem to represent official titles. But we haveonly to refer to the conventionalized figures that often stand for the Silphiumplant on the Greek coins of Cyrene to see how very close is the parallelthat they present. On the early tetradrachm. Fig. 218, a} we see the plantdrawn in a more or less naturalistic style, but in Fig. 218, (5 and c takenfrom the field of coins, where it is shown in a conventional and abbreviated^ L. Miiller, Numismatique de VAfrique ancienne, I, p. 9, No. 2. II: HIEROGLYPHIC DEPOSIT: SEALINGS & SEALS 285 manner, we see a very close approximation to certain
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