. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. th the Mycenaean world. 38. Writing.! There is no longer any doubt that adeveloped form of written characters existed in theMycenaean age. A. J. Evans has shown from the richfinds which he has made in Crete that there are twodifierent styles of writing, the older of which is picto-graphic and reminds us of the Egyptian hieroglyphics,while the later is linear and resembles somewhat thealphabets of Cyprusand Western Asia. Symbols havebeen found on the handles of an amphora and of astone vessel
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. th the Mycenaean world. 38. Writing.! There is no longer any doubt that adeveloped form of written characters existed in theMycenaean age. A. J. Evans has shown from the richfinds which he has made in Crete that there are twodifierent styles of writing, the older of which is picto-graphic and reminds us of the Egyptian hieroglyphics,while the later is linear and resembles somewhat thealphabets of Cyprusand Western Asia. Symbols havebeen found on the handles of an amphora and of astone vessel from Mycenae,^ on two amphorae fromthe beehive tomb of Menidi, in Attica,^ on a three-handled vessel from Nauplia,* and on a stone pestle iHeinrioh, Troja bei Homer unci in tier Wirklichikeit, p. Evans, Primitive Pictographs and a pre-Phoenician Scriptfrom Crete and the Peloponnese, Jonrnal of Hellenic Studies,1894, pp. 270-373; Tsountas and Manatt, The Mycenaean Age,pp. 268-293. 2Cf. Tsountas and Manatt, pp. 268-269. sCf. Il)id.,p. 268. ?*Cf. AeAr/ov apxo-ioXoyiKijv^ 1892, p. 73. -1 ^^vl.
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