Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

, , , , , (Evans 1909, 222, 112); , CH070
(CHIC 1996, 17, 19, 415, 416);
Cretan and Aegean linear character (Evans 1895, 80,
Table I, 28; 96, Table III, 8; 106, Fig. 77);
The following signs of the Linear A and B scripts:
AB24a; , , AB24; , , , , AB23 (Evans
1952, 11); , , AB28 (Evans 1952, 12); , ; AB2 that
are considered to be religious symbols of star or Sun by Evans 1 ;
AB3 (Evans 1952, 6);
Signs of the Linear A scripts: , (CHIC 1996, 19);
A309c/F071C (Douros 2008, 37); A309a/F071A (Douros
2008, 36, 53); (Evans 1921, 640); A077/F0689,
A077/F06BA; A077/F06BB; A077/F06BC (Douros 2008,
29, 53); A325/F073B, A326/F073C (Douros 2008, 37, 38,
53); A044/F0672, A044/F0673, A044/F0674 (GORILA
1985, V, XXXV; Douros 2008, 27, 53); A002/F0602,
A002/F0603, A702/F0863 (Douros 2008, 25, 49, 53);
1 . “The cross appears as a religious symbol on a series of seals found in the
shrine of the snake Goddess at Knossos, occasionally taking the swastika
form. It is remarkable that in the same repository an equal-limbed marble
cross was also found. It is also found incised on the Palace blocks.
The simple cross is widely diffused in primitive pictography, notably
among the American Indians, as a star sign [comp. Evans 1921, 514], and
there is evidence that it had the same significance in Minoan Crete.
The equal-limbed cross appears among the signs of the Linear Class A,
together with a variant in which the cross-bar is shorter than the upright stem.
This latter type was generally adopted in Class B of the linear script.” (Evans
1909, 222, 223).
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