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Linear B tablet

Π-Ν544
Clay
Mended and incomplete
Maximum length: 14.2 cm. Maximum height: 3 cm.
Knossos
Palace, Corridor of the Sword Tablets
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan IΙΙB2 period.:
1300-1250 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 tablet recording the delivery of three hilted swords by the artisan “Kykalos” (ku-ka-ro), whose name appears at the beginning of the tablet in large characters. The term pa-ka-na/phasgana is mentioned 25 times in the Homeric epics, which postdate the Linear B tablets, and signifies both swords and daggers.
Bibliography:
Chadwick, J., Godart, L., Killen, J.T., Olivier, J.P., Sacconi, A., Sakellarakis, I.A. Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume II (1064-4495). Cambridge University Press- Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1990, 166 (tablet Ra (1) 1548). 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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