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Clay Linear B tablet

Π-Ν407
Clay
Mended and incomplete
Maximum preserved length: 11.9 cm. Height: 2.4 cm. Thickness: 0.8 cm.
Knossos
Palace, Room of the Column Bases
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 probably referring to a transaction involving a “Cypriot” (ku-pi-ri-jo) and olive oil, as indicated by the word o-no, meaning “compensation”. This is one of the tablets in series FH by Hand 141, which records different stages in the distribution of olive oil from Knossos: the dispatch of oil from the oil-presses, collective receipts of oil, and the sending of batches of oil to various professionals and sanctuaries.
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, 138 (tablet Fh 361). 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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