The HIEROGLYPHIC symbols engraved on the twenty-one stones described and depicted by Mr. Evans number eighty-two, and comprise pictorial and ideographic forms, summarised by him as follows:-- 1. The human body and its parts 6 2. Arms, implements, and instruments 17 3. Parts of houses and household utensils 8 4. Marine subjects 3 5. Animals and birds 17 6. Vegetable forms 8 7. Heavenly bodies and derivatives 6 8. Geographical or topographical signs 1 9. Geometrical figures 4 10. Uncertain symbols 12 -- Total: 82 From the foregoing, all of which are represented in Mr. Evans's monograph, these may be selected as examples:-- 1. _a._ Ideògraph of a man with arms held downwards, perhaps to denote ownership. Human figures in like position, are frequent on Cypriote cylinders. _b._ Ideograph of gesture which may indicate ten or any multiple of ten. 2. _a._ This type of double axe is non-Egyptian. As a Hittite hieroglyph it has been found on an inscription; it is seen repeated in pairs on a Cypriote cylinder, and it also forms the principal type of some Mycenæan gems found at Crete, in the caves of which island bronze axes of this shape are common in the votive deposits. [Illustration: 1_a_] [Illustration: 1_b_] [Illustration: 2_a_] [Illustration: 2_b_] _b._ The "arrow" with a short shaft is frequent, one variety showing the feather shaft. Similar figures are occasionally seen in the field of Mycenæan gems found in the island, where they represent arrows of the chase about to strike wild goats or other animals. The Hittite hieroglyphic series presents some close parallels. [Illustration: 3] [Illustration: 4_a_] [Illustration: 4_a_] [Illustration: 4_b_] 3. Gate, door, or part of a fence. 4. _a._ The first of these vessels is accompanied with two crescents, one on either side of the mask, perhaps a sign of time as applied to the duration of the voyage (see p. 51). One ship has seven oars visible, the other six. In form these vessels show a great resemblance to those which appear as the principal type on a class of Mycenæan lentoid gems. _b._ Apparently a tunny-fish. Fish as hieroglyphic symbols are common to Egypt and Chaldæa. 5. _a._ Head of he-goat. This symbol presents a remarkable similarity to the Hittite hieroglyph of the same object [Symbol] The Egyptian goat's-head sign is of a different character, the neck being given as well as the head, which is beardless. [Symbol] [Illustration: 5_a_] [Illustration: 5_b_] [Illustration: 5_c_] _b._ Bull or ox. The seal on which it occurs is of primitive type.