626 BARLEY CORNS ON SEAL IMPRESSIONS

with these another vegetable sign "f, which also appears as a regular
character of the syllabary in Class B.

I That the grain shown in Fig. 612. a-/, was intended to represent barley

Fig! 613. Part
of Clay Sealing
showing Facing
Head and Bar-
lev Corn.

Fig. 614. Minoan
Genius before Bar-
ley Corn on Sealing.

Fig. 615. Seal

Impression with

Germinati n g

Grain.

Fig. 616. Grains on

Sealing arranged in

Wheel Pattern. .

Associ-
ated with
facing
head.

is made probable by the recurrence of what seem to be corns of this cereal
on a series of con-
temporary seal im-
pressions. Half of
a clay sealing found
in the upper filling
of Magazine X
shows a curious
type consisting of
a facing human
head, part of a leo-
nine body, andwhat
must1 certainly be
regarded as a grain
of barley in the
field (Fig. 013).

Parts of clay sealings with a similar facing" head,1 in this case with' two grains
of corn, were found in the Central Deposit of the Little Palace, while

1 The facing head in an isolated position positions on a cornelian lentoid from ti
recalls one symmetrically placed in the middle Phaestos Cemetery {Mgn. Ant., xiv, 75 »
space between two homed sheep in reversed Fig. 96).

Fig 617. Sealing from Hieroglyphic Deposit showing on
one side (a) Germinating Barley Corn, and on the other (/')
the Double-Axe Symbol.