. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 485. / m Selected Signs from Disk. Indica-tions ofconnexionwith is a well-ascertained fact. It is clear indeed that the signary of the PhaestosDisk is radically different from the Hittite system. But there are, as willbe seen, many reasons for ascribing it to the intermediate region embracingthe South-Western angle of Asia Minor. Within this area no inscriptionsof the Hittite class have been hitherto discovered, but a parallel
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 485. / m Selected Signs from Disk. Indica-tions ofconnexionwith is a well-ascertained fact. It is clear indeed that the signary of the PhaestosDisk is radically different from the Hittite system. But there are, as willbe seen, many reasons for ascribing it to the intermediate region embracingthe South-Western angle of Asia Minor. Within this area no inscriptionsof the Hittite class have been hitherto discovered, but a parallel hieroglyphicsystem may well have flourished there. In view of the non-existence of comparative materials from that areathe evidence is partly of a negative kind. The human figures, for instance,reproduced among some selected signs in Fig. 485,^ are as markedly non-Minoan as they are non-Hittite. The male figure a, performing the goose-step, is of different build from the Minoan, and his belt and short tunic^ From Dr. Stefanis drawings in Pernier, Disco di Phaestos. THE PHAESTOS DISK 655 shows a certain affinity with the Hittite dress. It is, a
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