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On looking at the “Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum," (17) 
I was at once struck with the great resemblance which exists 
between the arrangement of the Later Cypriote signs in 
graffiti marked on two black-glazed vases (Nos. 1,952 and 
1,954), and the arrangement of similar-shaped signs to be 
found in words 14, 20, 53, and 60 on the Disk; the two 
graffiti are figured in pl. xxii. of this paper. In these instances 
the linear signs read from left to right, and must be trans- 
literated, according to the details of Cypriote script forwarded 
to me by Mr. Markides, as /NA-O-TE." No classical scholar 
could fail to notice that this is like the Greek word vavrys 
"sailor," or one cognate thereto. The last sign in the group 
is the debased form of the "ship" hieroglyph. 
: The chief drawback the present writer has had to suffer 
rom is the lack, in the Commonwealth, of books bearing on or 
(1) "Cyprus: its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples."' 
di Cesnola, London, 1877. 
(2) A reference to Cypriote language in the article on 
* Alphabet," im Encyclopaedia Britannica, llth 
ed. (plate facing p. 729). 
(3) “Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities 
us." Myres, Metropolitan 
(4) *A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum." J. L. 
Myres, Oxford, 1899. 
(5) “Formation of the Alphabet" (Petrie), British 
School of Archaeology in Egypt, Studies Series, 
vol. in., London, 1912. 
(6) “Scripta Minoa," vol. l. A. J. Evans, Oxford, 
1909. 
G7) J. L. Myres, Oxford, 1899, p. 90. The graffiti figured in 
pls. XVili., xix., xx., and xxi. of my paper are also taken from the 
page referred to. 
