DESK CASE L. Linear B tablet

Accession Number AN1910.219
Year c. 1350 BCE
Dimensions 14 cm x 5 cm
Medium clay
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Two-sided Linear B tablet detailing men’s names. Evans did not decipher Linear B but recognised its subject from the layout: short sequences of signs and a number.

Bibliography

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

Evans, Arthur. 1952. Scripta Minoa II, no. 479, pls. xxxvii, xxxix