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Since then the material has been rapidly accumulating, and at present the number of objects tablets, labels, and other articles-inscribed with the various Cretan scripts can be counted by thousands. The earliest form of Minoan writing that can be traced consists of rude pictographic symbols engraved upon bead-seals and gems.
The primitive pictographs on the bead-seals of this period mark the beginnings of this form of Minoan script, which persisted until Late Minoan I., when it was at last superseded by the linear form of writing which had made its appearance in Middle Minoan III. Middle Minoan I. With this period we have distinct advance in more directions than one.
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