DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet

Accession Number AN1910.213
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 16.5 cm x 3 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Linear B tablet detailing chariots. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised it as a chariot tablet because of the chariot ideogram.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 791, fig. 766a
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27
Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 04.22, pl. xv