DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet

Accession Number AN1910.211
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 7.8 cm x 13.5 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Linear B tablet detailing chariot wheels. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised the subject because of the wheel ideogram.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 795, fig. 768
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27
Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 894, pl. lxi