Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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THE ALPHABET marks, and vases with property marks are attributed to the same period (Fig. 4, 1), but it is doubtful whether the latter should be regarded as a true script.
Still, we are at the beginning of writing; the script of this period may be termed "Pictographic Class A." (Fig. 36, 1). The "Pictographic Class B" of M.M.II is more developed and more cursive, and is
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represented not only by inscriptions on seals, made of rock crystal, jasper, carnelian and so forth, in three or four-sided, or circular form, but also by inscriptions on clay tablets, labels or bars (Fig. 36, 2 and 3).
The symbolsnumbering, according to Evans, about 135-represent (Fig. 36, 4) human figures, parts of the body, arms, domestic animals, religious symbols, ships, wheat, olive sprays, and also some geometric