Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Fig. 90. Carnelian seal-stone with pictographs j Crete. d Fig. Carnelian seal-stone with pictographs ; Crete.(Three sides shewn ; enlarged). 2i6 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY are evidently regular successions of ideas, sentences; infact, of a regular script (Figs. 90, 91). The signs are ofvaried character, derived, like those of Egypt, from everything that heaven gives, earth creates, and thewater brings, and they bear naturally a close analogy tothe hieroglyphs of Egypt, of the Anatolian Hittites, ofth
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . Fig. 90. Carnelian seal-stone with pictographs j Crete. d Fig. Carnelian seal-stone with pictographs ; Crete.(Three sides shewn ; enlarged). 2i6 AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY are evidently regular successions of ideas, sentences; infact, of a regular script (Figs. 90, 91). The signs are ofvaried character, derived, like those of Egypt, from everything that heaven gives, earth creates, and thewater brings, and they bear naturally a close analogy tothe hieroglyphs of Egypt, of the Anatolian Hittites, ofthe early Chinese, or of the Red Indians of NorthAmerica. When we see a ship with two moons above it(«),probablymeaningasea-voyage of two monthsduration, we are reminded of American Indian sign-writ-ing rather than the Egyptian hieroglyphic system; but onthe whole the script bears most analogy to the; it was not entirely ideographic like Chinese,but, like Egyptian, contained syllabic or semi-alphabeticsigns (transferred ideograms), as well as pure is, however, evidently entirely independent of boththe
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