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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
Among the clay sealings from Knossos stored in the Heraklion Museum was found, in 1990, a hitherto unnoted roundel inscribed on both sides with signs in Linear A. The only completely preserved sign, AB 04 (TE), may perhaps represent an ideogram, while the motif on the two incompletely preserved seal impressions of a goat-monster seems to represent a development of the Minoan Genius not previously noted. The exact provenance is unknown. The suggested date of the document is MM III/LM I.
1 We are most grateful to the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens for granting us permission to publish this roundel discovered by EH. Thanks are due to the Director of the Heraklion Museum, Dr Ch. Kritzas, for facilitating the studies in the Museum, and to the epimiletria H. Banou for all her help during the study. Warm thanks are also due to INSTAP for the grant which enabled EH's studies in the Museum. Apparently the roundel had been kept in a box with sealings from Knossos; it has now been numbered, and is kept together with the remaining Knossos sealings. The following abbreviations are used in addition to the standard ones: CMS = Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel; Gorila 1–5 = Godart, L. and Olivier, J.-P., Recueil des inscriptions en Linéaire A (Études crétoises, 21), i–v (Paris, 1976–1985).Google Scholar
2 For original roundel shapes see Hallager, E., ‘Roundels among sealings in Minoan administration: a comprehensive analysis of function’, in Palaima, T. G. (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration (Aegaeum, 5; Brussels, 1990), 125–6 and table 7.Google Scholar
3 For numbers on seal impressions on roundels, see Hallager, E., ‘The use of seals on the Minoan roundel’, in Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik, iii: Internationalen Marburger Siegel-Symposium (CMS Beiheft 3; Berlin, 1989), 73 n. 35.Google Scholar
4 e.g. HT 9 a.1; HT 12 a.1; HT 13.2. 3; HT 17.1; HT 26 a.1; HT 96 a.2; PH (?) 31 b.3.
5 Listed in Gorila 5, 149 (A [3]).
6 For the possible meaning of those signs, see Weingarten, J., ‘Seal-use at LM I B Ayia Triada, part I’, Kadmos, 26 (1987), 15–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar; 34–6.
7 HT Wa 1279–81.
8 HT 113.3.
9 Hallager (n. 2), 129–31.
10 Hallager, E. and Vlasakis, M., ‘Two new roundels with Linear A from Khania’, Kadmos, 23 (1984), 1–10.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
11 On the development of the Genius's elongated (originally hippopotamus) head, see now Weingarten, J., The Transformation of Egyptian Taweret into the Minoan Genius (SIMA 88; Partille, 1991), 9–10.Google Scholar
12 Phaistos = CMS II.5 321: Knossos (HM s. 360. from the Room of the Seal Impressions).
13 Weingarten (n. 11). 8–9 and n. 33.
14 BSA 9 (1902–3), 51–60.
15 Gill, M., ‘The Knossos sealings and identifications’, BSA 60 (1965), 58–98.Google Scholar
16 PM iv. 601–6.