Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Tablets : Clay epigraphic document in the shape of a rectangular bar with Hieroglyphic inscriptions on all four sides. [Π-Ν1294 + Π-Ν1300]

Writing in Ancient Crete ➔ Clay epigraphic document in the shape of a rectangular bar with Hieroglyphic inscriptions on all four sides.

Π-Ν1294 + Π-Ν1300

Clay

Mended

Height: 13 cm. Maximum preserved length: 6.8 cm. Thickness: 1.3 cm.

Knossos

Palace of Knossos, West Wing, "Hieroglyphic Deposit"

Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan II period.:

1800-1700 BC:

Gallery:

III

Case:

Exhibition thematic unit:

Middle Bronze Age - Protopalatial period (1900-1700 BC). The First Palaces. The emergence of palatial societies

Writing and economic administration

Description

Clay epigraphic document in the shape of a rectangular bar with Cretan Hieroglyphic inscriptions on all four sides. It was probably a record of a tax payment, as it bears logograms (signs representing goods) and numbers. Cretan Hieroglyphic was used in a wide range of documents recording various transactions. Clay rectangular bars were probably tax records, as they often bear logograms and numbers.

Bibliography:

Olivier, J-.P. and L. Godart. Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae. ?tudes Cr?toises 31. Paris, 1996, #118 and #119. Karnava, A. “Indications of Minoan fiscal registrations.” In Μ. Perna (ed.), Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives. Proceedings of the Conference held at Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Campania, Naples, 21-23 October 2004. Napoli, 2006, 59. Yule, P. “On the date of the “Hieroglyphic Deposit” at Knossos”. Kadmos 17 (1978): 1-7.

Author:

G. F.

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