Evans A.J. Scripta Minoa. The written documents of Minoan Crete, with special reference to the archives of Knossos. Volume 1

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. — 382 p.The aim of the present publication is to give in the first place a Corpus as complete as possible of the existing records of the script of Minoan Crete by means of photographic facsimiles and copies of the documents.
The First Part of the present volume has been devoted to a summary view of all the successive types of Minoan script, including the primitive pictographic, the hieroglyphic, and the advanced linear classes. Their genesis is traced from a widespread European family of immemorial antiquity, and the place occupied by them among other early forms of writing traceable throughout the Mediterranean basin is as far as possible defined.
The Second Part of the present volume concerns the hieroglyphic script of Crete and the more primitive stages of pictography out of which it arose.
While this volume was in the press a remarkable discovery of a hieroglyphic disk, made by the Italian Archaeological Mission at Phaestos, has introduced a wholly new element into the documentary evidence of early writing in Crete. The importance of this new material was such that its omission from the present work would have rendered it incomplete and unsatisfactory. Part III of this volume is devoted to this unique record.