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Clay Linear B tablet

Π-Ν1338
Clay
Intact
Preserved length: 13.65 cm. Height: 4.7 m. Thickness: 1.1 cm.
Knossos
Palace, West Magazine 8
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan IΙΙA2 period.:
c. 1375-1300 BC:
Gallery:
IX
Case:
95
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Final Palatial period (1450-1300 BC). The Knossos monopalatial system
Economy and administration. Linear B script. Economic data
Description
Palm-leaf tablet recording quantities of wool distributed to specific workshops at do-ti-ja and ka-ma, which are not identified with modern place-names, and to a collector named sa-mu-ta-jo. The scribe specifies that the raw material was intended to produce a total of nine cloths of the type identified by ideogram *164.
Bibliography:
Chadwick, J., Godart, L., Killen, J.T., Olivier, J.P., Sacconi, A., Sakellarakis, I.A. Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume I (1-1063). Cambridge University Press- Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 520 (tablet L 520). Firth, R.J. and C. Skelton. "A study of the scribal hands of Knossos based on phylogenetic methods and find-place analysis." Minos 39 (2016): 189-213.
Author:
G. F.


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