DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet

Accession Number AN1910.218
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 10.5 cm x 10.7 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Linear B tablet detailing female workers. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised its subject from the pictorial human ideograms.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 706-708, fig. 689

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

Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 639, pl. xliii