284 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
as }{ in plate Nos. F and C of fig. 15 of Mosso! representing 
stones from the primitive cells of the Pythion at Gortyna. 
ign No, 2 occursin the Assam Neolith, is identical with 
‘Y’ group of signs in the proto-Egyptian system and also 
occurs in rock-carvings near Algerian frontiers of Chhota— 
Tigri as is evident from (w) of the plate on p. 28, L’ Anthropo- 
logie, 1916. 
Sign No. 3 is almost identical with 9] occurring on a 
votive-lamp found at Archanes, see fig 9 of Mosso.? It seems 
that the projection on the left is a vowel stroke. 
Sign No. 4 probably belongs to the type of incomplete 
Square signs with a vowel stroke to the right and occurs at 
Gortyna as figured in plate c of fig. 12 in Mosso,’ and in 
p. 1114 (pl. VIL) of Scripta Minoa. 
Signs 5 and 6 are very similar and appear in a reverse 
form 4 in line 3 of B of fig. 11 of Mosso. 
Signs Nos. 7, 8 and 9 bear strong similarities to the signs 
4, Bd and ® of the Bronze alphabetic tablets from Venetia ® 
i . 10 is also found in the linear ‘A’ script from 
the Aegean and survives in Brahmi } ‘ ta.’ 
Sign No. 11 has also a long range occurring in proto- 
Egyptian signs as 1, in Caria and Spain as’ @ and also in 
less emphasised angular forms as 2 on the stone at Gortyna. 
Sign No. 12 somewhat resembles 9 in ‘A’ class inscriptions 
at Phaestos as in fig. 8 of Mosso.7 
_Signs 13, 14 and 15 similarly occur in the Minoan regions 
as in fig. 11 in Mosso’ and have not entirely disappeared in 
the later Brahmi. 
In 
have proofs not only of Brahmi and Minoan-like signs existing 
in Neolithic India but also of several characters which, though 
traceable outside India, are not found in the later Brahmi 
system. 
However incomplete and one-sided the above study may 
be, sufficient has been set forth to show that we have to do 
with regard to India, as has been done in the case of Greece in 
recognising that the Phoenician and South-Semitic similarities 
1 The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilisation, p. 41. 
t. p. 33. 8 Op. cit. p. 40. 
. cit. 
5 Journal Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. XLVI Ds 220. 
§ Vide Petrie’s table in Scientia. 
-p 
7 Op. cit 8 Op. cit. p. 39. 
