DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet

Accession Number AN1910.217
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 13.2 cm x 2.5 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Linear B tablet now known to detail sheep. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised the subject because of the horn ideogram.

Bibliography

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 27

Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 04-55, pl. xvi