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Graeco-Cypriote islanders of the eighth century before our era 
had more than one source to draw from when compiling their 
syllabary, and one of these sources must have been Assyria, 
n certain aspects of its culture, as no inscription in the Later 
Cypriote script can be dated, I suppose, earlier than about the 
commencement of the period of Assyrian influence. I do not 
mean to postulate, however, that some of the new signs actually 
were taken from the cuneiform characters, but that the later 
which the new script, of which that on our Disk is a typical 
Copy, came to be evolved; but it evidently very quickly fell 
into the debased style, which we know so well from the remains 
of the later periods of the history of Cyprus, mainly, I suppose, 
as a result of the more simple linear systems of writing which 
were spreading over the Mediterranean basin at the time. We 
May perhaps gather from the peculiarity that the Disk text 
Was "printed" by means of specially engraved stamps, that 
the use of the new hieroglyphical script was confined to objects 
lote linear sign, “oi? 
the Adelaide University, has sugges ag 
represents either a dwelling of the terra-mare ype 
or perhaps a treasure-house. The Greek language shows the 
(9 “Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions," 
y P. 183. 
