. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . tian hiero-glyphs. Prof. R. A. S. Macalister, Proc. R. , XXX (1913), Sect. C, p. 342 seqq., withoutattempting to transliterate the document, hascompared its arrangement with that of a con-tract tablet with a list of witnesses j Mr. F. {Quarterly Statement Pal. Exc. Fund,Jan., 1921, p. 29 seqq.) regards it as the oldestmusic in the world. This was at first my own view, but the tech-nical arguments advanced by Dr. Delia Seta,loc. cit
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . tian hiero-glyphs. Prof. R. A. S. Macalister, Proc. R. , XXX (1913), Sect. C, p. 342 seqq., withoutattempting to transliterate the document, hascompared its arrangement with that of a con-tract tablet with a list of witnesses j Mr. F. {Quarterly Statement Pal. Exc. Fund,Jan., 1921, p. 29 seqq.) regards it as the oldestmusic in the world. This was at first my own view, but the tech-nical arguments advanced by Dr. Delia Seta,loc. cit, have convinced me that the alternativeview held from the first by Dr. Pernier wascorrect and that the inscriptions run cogent arguments for this view areadvanced by Dr. Della Seta {oJ>. cit., p. 12seqq.). Such are (a; the abrupt widening ofthe outer column at the end of Section XII ofFace A, and the somewhat strangled beginningof Section XIV. {b) The fact that on bothfaces there are sHght superpositions of onesign by another, showing that in each casethe sign to the right was the first impressed 650 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Fig. 482. Phaestos Disk ; Face A, the signs of the inscriptions had run outwards from the centre to the periphery,in which case the human and animate figures would have faced to the right ( A. xvii. 3, 4; xxvi. i, 2 ; xxix. 2, 3, 4 ; by the grouping of the signs in Section XXX I, 2), {c) The evidences of crowd- In A, v, there has been a cancelling anding towards the centre of A, specially shown correction. THE PHAESTOS DISK 651 with the other signs, as is the case with both the Cretan hnear scripts. But a more detailed examination of the Disk must remove all doubt that the contrary was the case, and that the inscription in fact starts in the Order of outer circle running from right to left, and so winds round to the centre. Groups The animate signs are thus set facing the beginning of each group, which is ° ^^^? in fact the
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