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Clay inscribed roundel in Linear A

Π-Ν73
Clay
Intact
Diameter: 2.7-2.9 cm. Thickness: 1.2 cm.
Hagia Triada
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
VI
Case:
56
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Private and public life. Bread and circuses
Home handicrafts. Crafts (textile production)
Description
Clay roundel with three seal impressions around the edge and the Linear A sign ΑΒ 54 incised on the upper surface. This sign also appears in Linear B, but in Linear A it is usually combined with syllabograms that may signify Minoan of types of cloth, and which give it a different meaning in each case. On the clay roundel from Agia Triada we see a variant of sign AB 54 which is used as a logogram: it serves as an abbreviation for some object without it being certain whether this is a cloth or an upright loom of the type used in the Neopalatial period. The roundel was doubtless used to certify an economic transaction of some kind, by means of the seal impressions and the inscription. The fraction sign A 704 has been incised over one of the impressions.
Bibliography:
Del Freo, M., Nosch, M.-L., Rougemont, Fr. “The terminology of textiles in the Linear B tablets including some considerations on Linear A logograms and abbreviations”. In Michel, M. and Nosch, M.-L. (eds), Textile terminologies in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the third to the first millennia BC, Oxford, 2010, 338-373. Nosch, M.-L. “What’s in a Name? What’s in a Sign? Writing Wool, Scripting Shirts, Lettering Linen, Wording Wool, Phrasing Pants, Typing Tunics”. In Verbal and Nonverbal Representation in Terminology Proceedings of the TOTh Workshop 2013, Copenhagen – 8 November 2013, 2013, 93-115.
Author:
G. F.


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