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Linear B tablet

Π-Ν220
Clay
Mended and incomplete
Length: 11 cm. Height: 18 cm.
Knossos
Palace, Room of the Chariot Tablets
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan IΙΙA2 period.:
1400-1375 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. Lists of military equipment
Description
Palm-leaf Linear B tablet recording the delivery of a wheeled chariot, a cuirass of unspecified type and a horse to man named “Triopas” (ti-ri-jo-qa). The tablets of the Sc series from the Room of the Chariot Tablets are dated earlier than the rest of the Knossian Linear B tablets. Most of them record the delivery of a wheeled chariot, a horse and some type of cuirass to named men. The generally fine, deep lines of the tablets from the Room of the Chariot tablets were probably incised with a bronze stylus.
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, Rome, 1986, 99 (tablet Sc 226). Driessen, J. The Scribes of the Room of the Chariot Tablets at Knossos: Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of a Linear B Deposit, Minos Suppl. 15, 2000, 86, 274.
Author:
G. F.


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